Purpose Quotes

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Kate Morton
- Books
- Librarians
- Sworn
Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

J. Allen Boone
- Job
- Purpose

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
- God
- Father
- Service
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose.

Aristotle
- God
- Nature
- Create
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

J. P. Donleavy
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

Liberty Hyde Bailey
- True
- Education
- Sunset
The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

Confucius
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Men
- She
- House