Purpose Quotes

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

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.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

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.