Purpose Quotes

• For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Long
  • Running
  • Waiting

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

  

  Bette Davis
  • Purpose
  • Passions
  • Fingers

• All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

  

  George Eliot
  • Work
  • Consciousness
  • Despair

• It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • Purpose
  • Struggle
  • Convinced

• The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you.

  

  Ernie Hudson
  • God
  • Inspire
  • Trusting

• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Political

• I feel good. I've got a lot of energy. I've got a lot of purpose, too.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Energy
  • Purpose

• We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Universe
  • Purpose
  • Intention

• The worldview of the classical sciences conceptualized nature as a giant machine composed of intricate but replaceable machine-like parts. The new systems sciences look at nature as an organism endowed with irreplaceable elements and an innate but non-deterministic purpose for choice, for flow, for spontaneity.

  

  Ervin Laszlo
  • Choice
  • Sciences
  • Organism

• We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Reflection

• We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Earth
  • Reason
  • Talent

• A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.

  

  Joseph Pulitzer
  • True
  • Purpose
  • Newspaper

• You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Energy
  • Vibrations
  • Visualization

• Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

  

  Nicola Cabibbo
  • Science
  • Answer
  • Exist

• For me, when my agents and reps send me a script, I read it through, just for the story purpose of it, and then I read it again to think of my character and see if it's something that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Dania Ramirez
  • Character
  • Stories
  • Scripts

• The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

  

  Joseph Sobran
  • Education
  • Purpose
  • Minorities

• My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
  • Long
  • Enemy
  • Confused

• Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's

  

  Tori Kelly
  • Purpose

• Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Health
  • Purpose
  • Illness

• I think what I love most about Oprah's brand that I would love to do with the Eva Longoria brand is she has purpose with her brand. Everything she does means something.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Purpose
  • I Love
  • Brand

• The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas it's the purpose of historians to say, 'No! It's very complicated.' The job of the historian is to help give people a sense of existence in time, without which we are really not fully human.

  

  David Cannadine
  • People
  • History
  • Giving

• The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.

  

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Understand
  • Museum

• The purpose of the salt in the steak is to do its work so quietly that it changes the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Salt must get into something in order to have effect, where it indelibly stamps its own character upon what it invades.

  

  George O. Wood
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Something

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