The Purpose Quotes

#1. There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.

Santosh Kalwar

#2. The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

Peace Pilgrim

#3. The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

Patch Adams

#4. A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Paulo Coelho

#5. But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love.

Mercedes Lackey

#6. Entertainment works by withholding content with the purpose of increasing its value. And, when you think about it, those two are just vastly different approaches, but they can be bridged.

Robert Kyncl

#7. When the purpose of clearly exposing the differences between the Aryan and the Tamil culture, civilization, conduct and creed Thirukkural was written. I am of that firm view.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#8. Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

Russell Kirk

#9. The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

Donalyn Miller

#10. There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

William H. Hunt

#11. The purpose of family is to preserve life,' Aunt Patti said. 'We treat family members the way we're supposed to treat everyone on the planet.

Liz Rosenberg

#12. In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?

Dana Gioia

#13. To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice.

Shunryu Suzuki

#14. Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

Sam Keen

#15. The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Benjamin Graham

#16. Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.

Santosh Kalwar

#17. Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

#18. 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

#19. The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

Elbert Hubbard

#20. In philosophy we must always resist the temptation of hitting on an answer to the question how we can define such-and-such a notion, an answer which supplies a smooth and elegant definition which entirely ignores the purpose which we originially wanted the notion for.

Michael Dummett

#21. 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

#22. Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.

Mick Jagger

#23. I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

Rick Warren

#24. The purpose of Purgatory is to completely internalize, in your own individual soul, what Christ has completely accomplished in objective reality in His Passion. Nothing

Peter Kreeft

#25. Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God's creation.

Aga Khan IV

#26. The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

Ken Wyatt

#27. Think deeply to find the purpose of life but commit deeply to achieve success in life.

Debasish Mridha

#28. The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.

Thomas DiLorenzo

#29. The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work.

Thorstein Veblen

#30. The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

Wallace Stevens

#31. I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

Dennis Miller

#32. Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.

Albert Schweitzer

#33. Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Stephen Covey

#34. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

Zhuangzi

#35. Our memories do not visit us in chronology, and the story we form by joining up the memories involves choices with the purpose of making a whole and finding a pattern.

Zia Haider Rahman

#36. The purpose of human life is to expand love.

Maharishi Sadasiva Isham

#37. The purpose of romantic relationships is to encourage you to grow spiritually.

Gary Zukav

#38. What's the purpose somebody to follow you on social like (twitter, youtube and facebook) and after few days the follow disappear!

Deyth Banger

#39. I'm able to utilize a lifetime of learning to help teach young people how to apply sound marketing strategy and principles for the purpose of growing the client's business. And for me, that's just too much fun.

Lionel Sosa

#40. All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

#41. Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.

Alice Bailey

#42. The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky ... I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

Michael J. Fox

#43. 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

#44. The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

Janet Morris

#45. Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy - not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here our possession of a justifying righteousness - but for the purpose of forming and fitting us for a blessed eternity.

Thomas Chalmers

#46. The purpose of life should be to attain happiness by serving humanity with love and utmost sincerity.

Debasish Mridha

#47. 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

#48. The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.

Kevin DeYoung

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

David Almond

#53. The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Peter F. Drucker

#54. 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

#55. The purpose of life is to be purposeful.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people

Sunday Adelaja

#57. People say that a person has a fever, when [in reality] the fever is leaving! The fever which accumulated within the body as a result of abnormal food, the body's vitality power then creates the fever for the purpose of purification.

Dada Bhagwan

#58. Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

Maria Edgeworth

#59. We can take persecution because we know the purpose behind it. The purpose is to glorify God.

Billy Graham

#60. We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Willie Nelson

#61. There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation was, what happens after death. Until those questions are resolved we are caught.

Woody Allen

#62. 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

#63. For the purpose of pursuit not to be stated is to invite threatening danger

Sunday Adelaja

#64. We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

Nainoa Thompson

#65. The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself. We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives. The sum-total of that life is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#66. This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

Dorothee Solle

#67. Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can.

Edward Abbey

#68. Man has always seen himself the peak of creation. The part of the universe that thinks. The purpose for it all. It's no doubt a gratifying view, but the universe may have a different opinion.

Jack McDevitt

#69. The most important job in life is to find out the purpose of your life, and go for it wholeheartedly.

Debasish Mridha

#70. For the Javanese...the purpose of knowledge (kaweruh) is love, not ambition or cleverness. Knowledge comes from caring enough to suffer and learn.

Therese Walsh

#71. Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf.

Israelmore Ayivor

#72. The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

El Lissitzky

#73. Faith is always required. There are some things that cannot be proven. We believe that life is worth living. That is an article of faith. The purpose of life is to live, to resist death, perhaps to defy entropy.

George R R Martin

#74. 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

#75. Your inner "I" somehow knows the purpose of your existence

Sunday Adelaja

#76. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

#77. Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you?

Sunday Adelaja

#78. I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him.

Oswald Chambers

#79. You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

Harrison Ford

#80. True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others.

Ellen J. Barrier

#81. The purpose of philosophy is not to help men find a meaning in life, but to prove to them that there isn't any

Ayn Rand

#82. I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Donald Barthelme

#83. The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#84. The purpose exceeds the pain.

Beth Moore

#85. 4 For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given.* As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.

Anonymous

#86. Life truly is what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it.

Steven Redhead

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their potential. Occasionally, a leader discovers it and helps that individual develop it. For both, they now can fulfill the purpose for which they are born.

John C. Maxwell

#90. 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

#91. The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.

Atul Gawande

#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. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Toni Cade Bambara

#98. Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

Steve Maraboli

#99. And I still don't understand the purpose of a wedding. What could possibly induce two free beings to partner only with each other for the rest of their existence?

Helene Wecker

#100. The purpose of worship is to please God, and that every word and act in worship creates a witness about God as well as an offering to Him

Matthew James Elliott