Top 100 The Purpose Of Quotes
#1. Neither does He call man to observe Sabbaths simply for a cessation of labor, but rather for the purpose of drawing near to Him from whom our true sustenance comes.
Rick Joyner
#2. I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.
Newt Gingrich
#4. 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
#5. Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
Paul Erdos
#11. Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Ed Miliband
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. God, who calls a man, already knew the purpose of the calling
Sunday Adelaja
#18. 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
#19. The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
#20. 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
#21. The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.
Frederick Lenz
#22. 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
#23. The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business.
Norman Vincent Peale
#24. If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it's only a click away.
Timothy Ferriss
#25. The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.
Stella Young
#26. Once, Princess Leigh-Cheri used a papal candlestick for the purpose of self-gratification. She had hoped that at the appropriate moment she might be visited by either the Lamb or the Beast, be, as usual, only Ralph Nader attended her.
Tom Robbins
#27. What is the purpose of these dolls?"
"To play with, of course."
"Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?
Paul Christensen
#28. The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
Indira Gandhi
#29. The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. 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
#31. A belief in yourself, and your dreams, your ability to achieve them, and the purpose of life are essential ingredients of success. In fact, I tend to believe that success is directly proportional to the degree of belief.
Vishwas Chavan
#32. Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves
-Cicero
William Shakespeare
#33. There were always risks in life. Life was meant to be lived like that because if it wasn't, then what was the purpose of living it at all? Measuring
Terry Brooks
#34. I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Barbara Hepworth
#35. 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
#36. The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery
#37. The purpose of life is to know God and to bring glory and honor to his name. For most people, marriage enhances the possibility of achieving this objective.
Gary Chapman
#38. And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
Alanis Morissette
#39. What good is it, being two stranded British fops in the heart of America, if we don't announce it on Halloween by wearing enormous fuzzy hats for the purpose of our humiliation?
Red Tash
#40. Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.
Richard Stallman
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
David W. Orr
#44. We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.
Beth Moore
#45. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
Daniel H. Pink
#46. The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.
Henry B. Eyring
#47. The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.
Kent Hovind
#48. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name
Boris Pasternak
#49. The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context
within which you can express the fullness of who you are.
And who you are is an experience you have before
you enter relationship, not because you did.
Neale Donald Walsch
#50. Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.
Lyman Bryson
#51. We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud
#52. I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.
Dalai Lama
#53. Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.
Dalai Lama
#54. The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.
Andrew Louth
#55. You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.
Yogi Bhajan
#56. We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce
#58. The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process.
John Kador
#59. The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
Tristram Stuart
#60. We still need to give our best to life even if we do not understand the purpose of our existence on earth.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#61. The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us
Norman Cousins
#62. America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.
Arthur Goldberg
#63. We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.
Jennifer Granholm
#64. God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#65. Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity
Peter Drucker
#66. 'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
Richard Dawkins
#67. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway
#68. The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict
#69. Love provides the person with the purpose of his life. Intellect shows him the means to achieve that purpose. Leo Tolstoy
Robin S. Sharma
#70. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.
John C. Maxwell
#71. The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.
David O. McKay
#73. The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.
Criss Jami
#74. Life without GOALS is like flying a plane not knowing where you want to land. The PURPOSE OF LIFE is to know where we want to go and then go there. RVM
R.v.m.
#75. The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.
Michael Jackson
#76. The purpose of desire. It is for creation and destruction. It is the beginning and the end of a journey. Without desire, there is nothing.
Amish Tripathi
#77. The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#79. I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.
B. H. Roberts
#80. I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison
#82. I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#83. I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul
#84. Whatever I learned,
Whatever I knew,
Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
Away in some dilemma,
Always in some confusion,
The purpose of this life,
Seems like an illusion!
Mehek Bassi
#85. The documents inbox138 described a world in which money was everything- not just the means of sustaining life but the purpose of living it. ... If that was how the old world worked--if that was all they really cared about--maybe it was better that it had fallen apart. Maybe it was inevitable
Dan Wells
#86. There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.
Santosh Kalwar
#88. The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.
Anthony Burgess
#89. The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.
John Rogers
#90. Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light.
Lama Surya Das
#91. Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require.
Lindley Murray
#92. The purpose of a lecture should not be to impart information. There are books, libraries, nowadays the internet, for that. A lecture should inspire and provoke thought.
Richard Dawkins
#93. The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.
Atul Gawande
#94. The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."
Wilfred Grenfell
#95. Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. At my first press conference I was asked whether we could trust the Soviet Union, and I said that the answer to that question could be found in the writings of Soviet leaders: It had always been their philosophy that it was moral to lie or cheat for the purpose of advancing Communism.
Ronald Reagan
#97. The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director ... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.
King Vidor
#98. 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
#99. You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
#100. The word philosophy simply means a pursuit of wisdom, the purpose of life, and a search for Truth. However, this quest, because it originates with man, can never find the answers. In fact, man cannot reach God or know God by intellectual pursuit.
Jimmy Swaggart
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