Top 100 Ultimate Purpose Quotes
#1. The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God, in that transcendent fullness where the risen Christ embraces and illumines all things.
Pope Francis
#2. For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.
James Rouse
#3. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#4. The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.
Glynis Nunn
#6. There is no more strategic issue for a company, or any organization, than its ultimate purpose. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that.
Ray Anderson
#7. Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.
Debasish Mridha
#8. The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
Muhammad Iqbal
#9. The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.
Jay Saunders Redding
#10. The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#11. The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
John Piper
#12. The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to find and see the beauty of creation so that you may feel the joy of life.
Debasish Mridha
#13. The highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. If you are married, that is why you are married. If you hope to be, that should be your dream.
John Piper
#14. The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.
Rowan Williams
#15. Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#16. Inner peace comes from knowing the ultimate purpose of your life.
Debasish Mridha
#17. The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
Boyd K. Packer
#18. The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
Ben Bernanke
#20. The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
W. Edwards Deming
#21. the ultimate purpose of our salvation is to glorify God and to bring us into intimate, rich fellowship with Him,
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#22. We have many goals, but only one ultimate purpose of life. That purpose is to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#23. A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
Richard B. Livingston
#24. Likewise, the world of action, of politics, is reduced to a conflict of views about how to keep the cycle of production and consumption going. Questions of ultimate purpose are excluded from the public world.
Lesslie Newbigin
#25. The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state
Karl Marx
#26. Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.
Alexander McCall Smith
#27. God came as a baby, giving and entrusting Himself to me. He expects my personal life to be a "Bethlehem." Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transformed by the indwelling life of the Son of God? God's ultimate purpose is that His Son might be exhibited in me.
Oswald Chambers
#28. The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.
Paul Kurtz
#29. Pursuit of truth, not success, is the ultimate purpose of an illuminated life.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Attract and get attracted to that which is your ultimate purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#32. We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.
Raquel Cepeda
#33. What of God's silence? I think it over. I add:
An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.
Yann Martel
#34. Polarity exists so that we may discover the truth beyond this world of duality, which is the ultimate purpose of life.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#35. Your life has many purposes, many goals, but the ultimate purpose of life is to be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.
Nikola Tesla
#37. The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action.
Debasish Mridha
#38. The purpose of your life is to find your ultimate purpose that makes you happy. Then commit to it wholeheartedly.
Debasish Mridha
#39. A leader creates a new way to success for followers and inspires them to follow him toward the ultimate purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#41. Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering.
Debasish Mridha
#42. we must learn to see life as meaningful despite our circumstances. It emphasizes that there is an ultimate purpose to life. And in its original version, before an appendix was added, it concluded with one of the most religious sentences written in the twentieth Century:
Viktor E. Frankl
#43. Christ taught that the kingdom of God was a community where each member served the others. He defined His ultimate purpose using that term. But in most churches, a few people carry the load.
J. Oswald Sanders
#44. Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Tony Robbins
#45. Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.
Josei Toda
#46. Success is not the ultimate purpose of life but happiness is.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Happiness is not the simple purpose of life but it is the ultimate purpose of all purposes of life.
Debasish Mridha
#49. So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.
John-Talmage Mathis
#50. Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
#51. Let us have a Universal Mind
that loves and protects all creation
and helps all things grow and develop
To unify mind and body
and become one with the Universe
is the ultimate purpose of our study.
Koichi Tohei
#52. Our goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of life is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#53. It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#54. It is easy to lose sight of the ultimate purpose of economic policy: the life satisfaction of the population. That ultimate goal should be unassailable for a country founded precisely to defend the inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#55. Love not for a reason but as if it is your ultimate purpose and passion.
Debasish Mridha
#56. I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.
Luke Ford
#57. The ultimate purpose of psychology is to release from psychology.
Shai Tubali
#58. Women are formed for love, yes, but also for purpose, and the highest state for a woman - for all humans, in fact - comes when one discovers and then achieves one's ultimate purpose.
Therese Anne Fowler
#59. Go relentlessly in the direction of your ultimate purpose of life and that which makes you happy.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Make it the ultimate purpose of your life to be a great success.
Debasish Mridha
#61. The ultimate purpose of life is peace and happiness. You attain it through service, care, and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.
John Piper
#63. The ultimate purpose of life is to live it with profound love, joy, and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#64. As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Samuel Johnson
#65. Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. ... The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.
Eckhart Tolle
#66. Uniconsciousness is the ultimate purpose and ultimate essence of a higher consciousness. The knowledge of the ultimate source of life and the ultimate source of non-judgmental love and consciousness can achieve higher consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
#67. fully endowed with conclusive knowledge of the Vedas, and having realized the ultimate purpose of such knowledge in practice, you will be able to perceive the pure self and
Srila Vyasadeva
#68. The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.
Edgar Cayce
#69. The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
Richard B. Livingston
#70. but death is the ultimate purpose of life.
Wilbur Smith
#71. Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
Viktor E. Frankl
#72. I don't teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning.
Debasish Mridha
#73. 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
#74. Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.
Debasish Mridha
#75. When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.
Bertrand Russell
#76. The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.
Richard Flanagan
#77. the ultimate determinant of my life has got nothing to do with neither my past nor my present but my aspirations, my tenacity to dare and to do; to leave a great and an indelible positive footprints on earth
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#79. God reveals Himself to us through Scripture and His creation; if we can't discern His will, the revelation serves no-purpose. Thus, God has given us knowledge (Proverbs 2:6). Since humans have limited capacity for all knowledge, He has also given us the ultimate gift--faith.
Samuel C. Tseng
#80. failure and obstacles are not the ultimate cause that deteriorate purpose but attitude and the mind
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#81. If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.
Francis Chan
#83. The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#84. Time is indeed the ultimate gift. It is not available for sale and there is never any extra, so it must be used with purpose before it runs out.
Christopher Mart
#85. Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.
Jon Gordon
#86. When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.
Twyla Tharp
#87. Being creative, joyful, happy, and beloved are the ultimate purposes of a profound life.
Debasish Mridha
#88. Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Marianne Williamson
#89. Set out with some definite purpose in life and accomplish that purpose. There is little that the human mind can conceive that is not possible of accomplishment. The thing to do is to make up your mind what you are going to drive for, and let nothing stand in the way of its ultimate accomplishment.
Charles M. Schwab
#90. 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
#91. There vas purpose yet to be fulfilled, and my ultimate destiny could come only through my darkness.
Anita Agers-Brooks
#92. We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in different views. Somehow, if we could remove those glasses, we can see the world with real colors. Name of the most difficult to remove glass is 'there are permanent things of mine.
Muditha Champika
#93. The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#94. For limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.
Robert Neelly Bellah
#95. If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. Human ingenuity," wrote Leonardo da Vinci, whose Vitruvian Man became the ultimate symbol of the intersection of art and science, "will never devise any inventions more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does.
Walter Isaacson
#98. Working in network news is not a solitary pursuit; it is the ultimate 'team sport,' in which success is derived from the collective performances of remarkable people united in purpose and dedication.
Steve Capus
#99. Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance; capitalize on their ignorance and let them appreciate your purpose in awe and admiration
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#100. Ryvah (Rahy-va), noun. 1. A state of being in which your own life ceases to have value except to become a tool of fate, whose only purpose is to fight for, and if need be, die for, the absolute unconditional right to freedom and love. 2. The ultimate pursuit of freedom.
M.J. Leonard
