Top 100 Purpose Of The Quotes
#1. Good writing - good stories - are the imagination's firing pin, and the purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life-passages which would otherwise prove unendurable.
Stephen King
#2. The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
George Inness
#3. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#4. There is nothing to learn about reasoning and invention if the motive and purpose of the most conspicuous step remain incomprehensible.
George Polya
#5. The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.
Joanna Macy
#6. You have to ask yourself a question: "What's the purpose of the private sector - to support government?" And if the answer is, "Yes, it is," then you're a Democrat.
Rush Limbaugh
#7. To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
Douglas MacArthur
#8. The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Neal Boortz
#9. The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.
Bernie Glassman
#10. A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.
Peter Drucker
#11. The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
#12. The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.
Robert M. Pirsig
#13. The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.
Jeff Cooper
#14. The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.
Clark Kerr
#15. Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law.
Charley Reese
#16. The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.
S.A. Tawks
#17. Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.
Cristen Rodgers
#18. The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.
Milan Kundera
#19. When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.
Travis J. Dahnke
#20. There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.
Donella Meadows
#21. The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.
William O. Douglas
#22. If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
John Sulston
#23. Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.
Frederick Lenz
#24. The purpose of creation is that we bring God glory because we have been made in His image. The purpose of salvation is that we bring God glory by being remade in His image. The purpose of the Bible is to teach us how we bring God glory by living out being remade in His image.
Chris Green
#25. But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban
#26. But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.
Thomas Yellowtail
#27. Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.
Count Of St. Germain
#28. The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.
Walt Whitman
#29. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.
Ayn Rand
#30. The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
Malachy McCourt
#31. Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.
Joe Hyams
#32. The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.
David O. McKay
#33. The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best
A.S. Neill
#34. The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
Alan Greenspan
#35. what ever the cause or purpose of the break-up, heartbreak is always difficult to handle.
Raul Castell
#36. The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.
Willie Robertson
#37. Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.
Brother Andrew
#38. Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#40. The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river's deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
Aberjhani
#42. The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
Joseph Campbell
#43. A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
Derrick Jensen
#44. If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.
Robert Kennedy
#45. The whole purpose of the winepress
is to preserve the grapes. Accept
Pressing moments. What you
accomplish in a moment of pressure
will be used forever.
Moffat Machingura
#46. The purpose of the heart is to know yourself, to be yourself, and yet one with God.
Edgar Cayce
#47. The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#48. I didn't understand the purpose of the seeds, but it was comforting to know that in a dire emergency I could hit people with my ukulele while Meg planted geraniums.
Rick Riordan
#49. A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. Consistently turning up for meetings late, is a statement saying you have no respect for the person you are meeting or for the purpose of the meeting, or both. You are sending a clear message that this person or the reason for your meeting is not important to you.
Archibald Marwizi
#51. Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success
Ray Bergman
#52. Christmas is a time when God showed His love for us, and we're ready to show God's love in the communities where we live and serve. That's the purpose of the church.
Miles McPherson
#53. We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.
Mary Baker Eddy
#54. The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.
Michael Porter
#55. The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia's role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government.
Glenn Reynolds
#56. The purpose of the voice of condemnation is to push you away from His presence -- that which is the very source of your victory. The purpose of the voice of conviction is to press you into the face of Christ." ~Bob Sorge, Secrets of the Secret Place.
Lori Hatcher
#57. As much as the idea of collaring and leashing you sounds promising, the purpose of the phone is to ensure you're reachable." I interrupted him. "You mean bound and restrained." "Janie, if I wanted to restrain you, I'd use rope.
Penny Reid
#58. God, who calls a man, already knew the purpose of the calling
Sunday Adelaja
#59. Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
P. J. O'Rourke
#60. After all, the purpose of The Prayer is not to stand and bow all Day long. The purpose is to possess continuously that fragrant state which appears to you in prayer.
Swatika Jain
#61. I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.
Eduardo Galeano
#62. Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves
-Cicero
William Shakespeare
#63. The knowledge of the purpose of the success that you receive by grace in every area will keep us from pride and the love of money
Sunday Adelaja
#64. The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Gutzon Borglum
#65. If a person forges ahead in the light and yet has lost his care for the others, the purpose of the light is wasted. God does not give us light for its own sake, but for the purpose of doing something in the light.
Johan Oscar Smith
#66. The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.
Kent Hovind
#67. 'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
Richard Dawkins
#68. You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.
Kurt Vonnegut
#70. I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#71. Before the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect,
L. Ron Hubbard
#72. The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
Bill Drayton
#73. Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.
James Fenton
#74. The purpose of the headlines must be to convey a message to people who read headlines, then decide whether or not they will look at the copy.
John Caples
#75. AVERT DISASTER, in fact, would have been a perfect school motto - the purpose of the place, as far as Schwartz could tell, was to keep three thousand would-be maniacs sedated by boredom until a succession of birthdays transformed them into adults.
Chad Harbach
#76. Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.
Alice Bailey
#77. Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.
Colbie Caillat
#79. Give with a truly glad heart, for the sole purpose of the good it will do, and whatever you give shall return to you, multiplied, as if on wings, covered in sparkles.
Mike Dooley
#80. The purpose of the socialists is to suppress liberty of association precisely in order to force people to associate together in true liberty.)
Frederic Bastiat
#81. You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.
Judd Gregg
#82. The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness.
Dante Alighieri
#83. Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.
Owen Gingerich
#84. The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
Alfred H. Barr Jr.
#85. It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...
Jane Addams
#86. It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'.
Morris Hite
#87. The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
Tom Coburn
#88. The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
Christian D. Larson
#89. It seems to me that the whole purpose of the workshops is really twofold. One - to help people make better pictures, and two - to unleash their creativity to the fullest amount that they possibly can.
Freeman Patterson
#90. For what is this shadow of the going in which we come, this shadow of the coming in which we go, this shadow of the coming and the going in which we wait, if not the shadow of purpose, of the purpose that budding withers, that withering buds, whose blooming is a budding withering.
Samuel Beckett
#91. As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Samuel Johnson
#92. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.
Steve Stockman
#93. The true purpose of the various directives, regulations, and pocket-sized codes of conduct handed out to troops was not to implement genuine safeguards for noncombatants, but to give the military a paper trail of plausible deniability.
Nick Turse
#94. The purpose of the gospel of prosperity is not to enrich the man of God, not at all. It is to enrich the people, to open their eyes on how to make money and prosper in order
Sunday Adelaja
#95. In the search of spark, we forget the beauty of darkness. We forget the purpose of the light.
Nishikant
#96. The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society.
Kano Jigoro
#97. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Eckhart Tolle
#98. To promote the purpose of the kingdom is to fill the whole earth with God's glory
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage.
Nilesh Rathod
#100. The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Nikita Khrushchev
