Purpose Quotes

• It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue. But all beautiful things, inherently, have this function - to excite the viewers toward sublime thought. Glory to the world, that good teacher.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • World
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Purpose

• Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Sports
  • Organize

• the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Want
  • Purpose
  • Foreign Policy

• I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Spread
  • Fund
  • Unworthy

• Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Work
  • Great
  • Woods

• As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • True
  • Song

• Nietzsche's great concept of Yea-saying gave him a notion of purpose that is seen as positive. Nietzsche, in short, was a religious mystic.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Great
  • Religious
  • Positive

• I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Purpose
  • Step

• The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.

  

  Fridtjof Nansen
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

  

  Jerome Jarre
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Thanks

• I was drawn to journalism as a young guy because I felt like there was some purpose to it, not always but sometimes.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Guy
  • Purpose

• Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Remember
  • Plan

• How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning... snoozing through your life... and snoozing through your unlimited potential... Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want & deserve?

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Up
  • Passion

• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Hustler

• I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology.

  

  George Packer
  • Political
  • Powerful
  • Psychology

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • President
  • Invasion
  • Neighboring Nation

• Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

  

  David Cameron
  • Today
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Kids
  • Hate
  • Sometimes

• There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

  

  T. L. Osborn
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Spirit

• Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Present
  • Beginning
  • Scripture

• The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Time
  • Everything
  • Prevent

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

  

  Chanakya
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Wise

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