Purpose Quotes

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.

And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

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.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given - to love unconditionally?

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.