Top 100 Quotes About Purpose
#1. I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.
Michel Gondry
#2. The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose
the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#3. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
#4. Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
John Knowles
#5. Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#6. The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted, the evidences of the latter are scanty and occasional.
Clifford Allbutt
#7. Without sense of purpose and clear direction of your life, you will only be building a fake brand of you
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#8. 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
#9. Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose ... Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
Fulton J. Sheen
#10. A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.
Unknown
#11. Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.
Jerome K. Jerome
#12. If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I've never heard of it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#13. Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed.
Billy Graham
#14. Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.
Timo Tjahjanto
#15. The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams.
Hal Elrod
#16. The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Edmund Burke
#17. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.
Roy Bennett
#18. God has a purpose behind every problem. He uses circumstances to develop our character. In fact, he depends more on circumstances to make us like Jesus than he depends on our reading the Bible.
Rick Warren
#19. The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
Issey Miyake
#20. Here's a big lesson: The secret of passion is purpose. Once you find your calling - that compelling cause that you can give your life over to - your heart will begin to sing, and you'll have more passion, power, and inner peace than you ever could have imagined. Discovering
Robin S. Sharma
#21. In my years as a priest and a scientist, I have been guided by two allied principles," Gianni began. "One, that the universe was created for a purpose. And two, that the purpose for which it was created was guided by a loving Creator who desired that its purpose should be fulfilled." He
Stephen R. Lawhead
#22. There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.
J.A. Redmerski
#23. I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
David Niven
#24. THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.
Morihei Ueshiba
#25. The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.
David Jeremiah
#26. Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.
John F. Kerry
#27. He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.
Kel Mitchell
#28. God, who calls a man, already knew the purpose of the calling
Sunday Adelaja
#29. The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.
D.H. Lawrence
#30. I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Shirley Maclaine
#31. The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a fantasy figure for the purpose of persuading gullible Gentiles to accept the revolutionary ideas that would be their undoing.
Christine M. Johns
#32. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
James Ellis
#33. If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
Maurice Sendak
#34. If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.
Starhawk
#35. The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#36. 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
#37. All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#39. I am no longer just a girl on the train, going back and forth without point or purpose.
Paula Hawkins
#40. When you realize your purpose, it brings understanding deep within you
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit.
Johann Sebastian Bach
#42. Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
William Hazlitt
#43. The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions. That
Ben Aaronovitch
#47. It always takes a group of people working together with a common purpose in an atmosphere of trust and collaboration to get extraordinary things done.
James M. Kouzes
#49. He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.
Richard Sibbes
#50. The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.
Pico Iyer
#51. And verily the Lord beheld Adam, who He had fashioned in His image, and thought to Himself, 'I had better give him some appendages for the separating of eggs,' and thus He gave man two hands for that purpose, and lo, eggs were separated, and it was good.
Alexis Hall
#53. Knowing the purpose for our lives and the time of its fulfilment gives us the opportunity to perform the will of God exactly as he wants.
Sunday Adelaja
#54. I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
Toyin Odutola
#55. A match for you is your lifeline. Now that you have bonded, you're sealed, with purpose. As long as you're together you'll feel the strength your seal provides.
K.J. Bell
#56. The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
David Mamet
#57. Figure out who you are. Then do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
#58. Worry comes from a lack of purpose. It comes from not having a big "why" for your life.
Bruce Van Horn
#59. The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.
Robin Roberts
#60. A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only to be admired passively, like a stamp collection. A wine list is good only when it functions well in tandem with a menu.
Gerald Asher
#61. Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.
Jim Tressel
#63. There's no way to do that, Miss Archer. I won't say that if you refuse me you'll kill me; I shall not die of it. But I shall do worse; I shall live to no purpose.
Henry James
#65. While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
Peter McWilliams
#66. Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Ed Miliband
#67. The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.
Brian Tracy
#68. Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.
Mark Knopfler
#69. I don't know how to choose my purpose - that sounds to big and... significant. But I know who I am, and I've chosen the things that are important to me. I think the best decisions I make about what to do in my life come when I'm being true to both of those things
April White
#70. The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
Paul Erdos
#71. As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
Albert Einstein
#72. A woman who's self confident doesn't need to compete with other females. She knows her worth and lives a purpose filled life.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#73. Eighth letter : The purpose of life is to love
How well you live comes to how much you love. The heart is wiser than the head. Honor it. Trust it follow it.
Robin S. Sharma
#74. After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
A.R. Rahman
#75. What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?
Lewis H. Lapham
#76. Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here.
Trisha McCagh
#77. A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.
Stedman Graham
#78. Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.
Nikki Rowe
#79. If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.
Robin S. Sharma
#80. Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when it's that way.
Megyn Price
#81. Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.
Debasish Mridha
#82. What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?
Brandon Sanderson
#83. It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.
Robert Breault
#84. Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people.
Allen West
#86. It may be that your sole purpose in life is
simply to serve as a warning to others.
Chloe Traeger
Jill Shalvis
#87. You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.
Grant Cardone
#88. The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
Arlen Specter
#89. But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so c that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. 17 d You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Anonymous
#90. Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.
Jeannette Walls
#91. The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.
T.L. Osborn
#92. Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#93. The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Juan Goytisolo
#94. You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.
Bob Proctor
#95. Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.
Terry Goodkind
#96. No one who worked in "Corrections" appeared to give any thought to the purpose of our being there, any more than a warehouse clerk would consider the meaning of a can of tomatoes, or try to help those tomatoes understand what the hell they were doing on the shelf.
Piper Kerman
#97. My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.
Ovid
#99. We may not long for bread, but we long for meaning, intimacy, fulfillment, community, purpose, and joy.
Tim Chester
#100. We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.
Meg Wolitzer
