Purpose Quotes

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish dange...

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If...

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's...

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is...

... And that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me som...

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpo...

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never...

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of ...

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is inca...

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other...

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first conditio...

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the ...

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and partic...

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith i...

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses ...

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they mi...

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I...

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figur...

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is the...

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed...

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, ...

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and t...

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds ...

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l...

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one'...

A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impuls...

Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving sprin...

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t e...

At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have t...

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright...

Your mind was made to know and love God.

They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illega...

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

Your mind was made to know and love God.

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

Your mind was made to know and love God.

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ...

The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, ...

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’v...

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a pass...

Your mind was made to know and love God.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men ...

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is...

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the hum...

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i...

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better ...

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or ju...

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can hap...

The war had remade her. Reshaped her purpose. Why couldn’t she unmake it again?

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live an...

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full c...

We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It abs...

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really ins...

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open ...

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Thr...

[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usual...

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it mak...

But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his brother, th...

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which mean...

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice...

If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn'...