Purpose Quotes
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My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.
Vaginal Davis
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There could never be a more beautiful you; dont buy the lies, disguises and hoops they make you jump through; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do; so there could never be a more beautiful you.
Jonny Diaz
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Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.
Lorenzo Snow
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You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Eckhart Tolle
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'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.
Mekhi Phifer
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'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.
Joe Flaherty
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When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.
Oprah Winfrey
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It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
Alain de Botton
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So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.
John Ortberg
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It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.
Rachel Grace Held
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When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.
Bill Crawford
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The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
John Clayton
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I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!
Hal Elrod
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?
Newt Gingrich
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It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
Charles Dickens
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'The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.'
Brandon Sanderson