Purpose Quotes

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.