Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits.

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

The first thing these people have who succeed, who are fulfilled, is that they’ve decided what the purpose of the game is, at least for right now.

The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

The future of profit is purpose.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good, say the mystics of muscle, is Society — a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form, a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself.... The purpose of man's life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

The head has no purpose in the golf swing. It simply goes where the body takes it

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

The heart of blogging is linking - linking and commenting. Connecting and communicating - the purpose of the Internet.

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life.

The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect.

The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.

The Holy Ghost has as a major purpose witnessing that Jesus is the Christ. As we plead for help in His service, the Holy Ghost will come and confirm our faith in Him. Our faith in the Savior will increase. And, as we continue to serve Him, we will come to love Him.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.