Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words "All Men" exclude a vast number of citizens.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

The Democrat Party has had a friendly, supportive relationship with every communist regime on this planet in my lifetime. And now all of a sudden their buddies, the Soviets, i.e., Putin and the Russians, have abandoned them and are now sabotaging them for the purpose of election.

The deity on purpose [sings] the liveliest of all lyrics through the most miserable poet.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.

The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

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 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 purpose of prayer is to know God.

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 fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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.