Purpose Quotes
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Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Abraham Lincoln
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The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
Ben Shneiderman
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Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.
Elton Gallegly
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
David Brainerd
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
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When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.
Bertice Berry
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Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
Paul J. Meyer
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse
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I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.
Caroline Ghosn
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The purpose of Plato, or of Aristotle, as Al-Farabi conceived of it, is sufficiently revealed in this seemingly conventional praise of philosophy.
Leo Strauss
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It is this thinking which I think gives rise to the greatest tragedies of history, this sense of commitment to a past purpose which reinforces the original agreement precisely at a time when experience has shown that it must be reversed.
Kenneth Arrow
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Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
John Cusack
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I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.
Anne Graham Lotz
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A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
Stephen Covey
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My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
Phil Jackson
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Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.
Leon Bourgeois
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I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
Andy Rooney
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And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
Jerzy Kosinski
