Top 100 One Purpose Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About One Purpose

#1. Having a team of people united by one purpose - to bring Christ to that city - is key for the emotional stability of all decision makers.

J.A. Perez

#2. I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

Justin Cronin

#3. Ka was like a wheel, its one purpose to turn, and in the end it always came back to the place where it had started.

Stephen King

#4. A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

Fernando Pessoa

#5. All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.

Jim Garrison

#6. and three more for special "assignments." Nathanial provided long stiletto knives for the special training. The narrow knives were all black with thin blades that went straight to a point and sharp edges on both sides. They were design for one purpose, killing.

D.M. Stoddard

#7. There is in the American Government ... a want of unity ... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

James Bryce

#8. To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

Wentworth Miller

#9. Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

W.B.Yeats

#10. If you want to use your full amount of steam, you must close your valves and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one end. Center your mind on one purpose, one plan, one transaction.

William Walker Atkinson

#11. Clearly understand, there isn't any situation that isn't made worse by worry. Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals anything. Worry serves only one purpose ... it makes matters worse.

Bob Proctor

#12. My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Jamie Zawinski

#13. The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Susan Cheever

#14. God reminded me again that day that I have one purpose, in Uganda and in life, and that is to love. I could ask for no greater assignment.

Katie J. Davis

#15. There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

Walter Lippmann

#16. Vampires smiled for many reasons, but when a vampire male smiled at you from this distance with that kind of look in his eyes it was done for one purpose only: to impress. Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome.

Ilona Andrews

#17. The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#18. The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

Tommy Woodcock

#19. The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a dog were in my opinion all God-given for one purpose only-to make complete fools of us human beings.

Barbara Woodhouse

#20. No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left
I am here for God to send me where He will.

Oswald Chambers

#21. Last year she began distributing black plastic cards bearing the phrase "One Purpose: Be essential" to IBM's roughly 50,000 managers and has been known to demand to see them as she walks the halls.

Anonymous

#22. Collect yourself in His presence with the one purpose and intent of loving Him. Come to Him as one who is giving himself to God. Behold Him in the most inward recess of your spirit that you can find.

Gene Edwards

#23. She is the Sun and I am the northern star
Different stars made for one purpose
So much alike yet never able to be present at the same time
Missing each other... by only a days time
No I will never forget this sight. Yes her beauty will surely haunt my dreams
~ Cal

A. Hart

#24. My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

Annie Besant

#25. I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Nat King Cole

#26. They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encountered.

Frank Herbert

#27. Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

Oswald Chambers

#28. There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

T.L. Osborn

#29. I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

John Diefenbaker

#30. There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

Anne Rice

#31. God cannot deliver me while my interest is merely in my own character. Paul was not conscious of himself. He was recklessly abandoned, totally surrendered, and separated by God for one purpose--to proclaim the gospel of God.

Oswald Chambers

#32. No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.

Jane Jacobs

#33. Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#34. God gave woman a clitoris
a small little bit of flesh with only one purpose
transcendent sexual pleasure. So how is it that some people believe God and sex shouldn't be in the same sentence?

Lisa Valdez

#35. She herself had given up washing long ago, and besides, people no longer believed in stale urine, either for one purpose or another.

Halldor Laxness

#36. Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#37. Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose ... mine!

Benito Mussolini

#38. Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.

Julieanne O'Connor

#39. But it was more than a planet; it was the living pulse beat of an Empire of twenty million stellar
systems. It had only one, function, administration; one purpose, government; and one manufactured product, law.

Isaac Asimov

#40. Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness.

Erik Valeur

#41. I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

Douglas MacArthur

#42. The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

C.S. Lewis

#43. I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, or differing mores. We all work together for one purpose: to further our achievements and our learning.

Michael Talbot

#44. Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose
to make people laugh.

W.C. Fields

#45. Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Nhat Hanh

#46. The proper perspective to maintain is that we are here for only one purpose - to be captives marching in the procession of Christ's triumphs.

Oswald Chambers

#47. And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him.
And they began this day with hope.

John Steinbeck

#48. A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Jim Lehrer

#49. There is only one purpose in life, which is happiness. We attain happiness by serving others with love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#50. There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

#51. We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

Yoko Ono

#52. Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#53. My eyes, my tongue, my hands, my feet today Have but one purpose; to be given Christ To use to bless the world with miracles. - W, LESSON 353

Alan Cohen

#54. They locked me up with a boy. A boy . Dear god. They're trying to kill me. They've done it one purpose. To torture me, to torment me, to keep me from sleeping through the night ever again.

Tahereh Mafi

#55. We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

Vincent Bugliosi

#56. As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark ... so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

William Shakespeare

#57. There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

William Powell

#58. I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#59. I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. [ ... ] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Kenneth Rexroth

#60. Can we please agree that in the real world, corporations exist for one purpose and one purpose only - to make as much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?

Robert Reich

#61. Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

Adam McKay

#62. Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

George Will

#63. One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.

Cay S. Horstmann

#64. Every trial that ever burdened a mortal man, every temptation that ever stormed a human heart, and every blessing that ever delighted a needy soul have been skillfully designed by the Creator for one purpose: to draw men to Himself.

Jim Berg

#65. We all have been founded by the universe for only one purpose - To competitiveness.

Sushil Singh

#66. God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His kingdom equals joy.

Elisabeth Elliot

#67. We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

Karl Rove

#68. When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.

Paulo Coelho

#69. Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

Billy Graham

#70. My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

Billy Graham

#71. Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

Jones Very

#72. Whatever we do, where ever we live, from wherever we are coming from, we all have one purpose in life and that is to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

#73. Laws are made for one purpose only (...) to hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are moderate we have no need of laws.

J.M. Coetzee

#74. Today, everything I do from morning meditation on - eating breakfast, going for a walk, writing, reading, even recreation - is governed by one purpose only: how to give the very best account of my life that I can in the service of all.

Eknath Easwaran

#75. Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

David Burr Gerrard

#76. Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#77. The universe wants us to have fun doing more than one thing in life. That's how it learns. You don't have one purpose in life. You have maybe 500 or so.

James Altucher

#78. One purpose in my writing is to help people expand their own understanding of what it means to be human.

Foster Laverne Harding

#79. There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory ... everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.

Neale Donald Walsch

#80. Libby is none of those things. At least not the Libby I've become. She's crafted and honed for this one purpose, forged by misery and rage, until every raw edge was seared away.

Carrie Ryan

#81. The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

D.H. Lawrence

#82. Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.

Alan Gratz

#83. Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

Oprah Winfrey

#84. Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Thornton Wilder

#85. I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.

Sigmund Freud

#86. In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

Rick Warren

#87. We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.

David Hawkins

#88. University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.

Francis Cornford

#89. It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach.

Olivia Palermo

#90. One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.

Ogwo David Emenike

#91. T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

Adam Nicolson

#92. No one can be compared with you and so no one can refute this

Sunday Adelaja

#93. Make your life a meaningful one

Sunday Adelaja

#94. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.

M. Scott Peck

#95. One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

Satya Nadella