Purpose Quotes

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

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.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.