Purpose Quotes
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The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.
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Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
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large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.
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Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of social discourse.
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All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose.
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There was a time when I stopped singing, between 16 and 19, but that was done on purpose, maybe as a punishment, maybe as a cure.
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Art is purposiveness without purpose.
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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
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I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
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What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
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I thought our kids came out with a purpose. We did a good job of getting hands in the passing lane and keeping them off the glass.
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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
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I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
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It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.
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The biggest misconception is that the purpose of going to the gym is to change your body. We should be working out to be healthy.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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I think there is a classy way to go about changing people's views about how they treat animals, and that is with compassion, strategic moves, and passing laws to protect animals, not throwing paint and flour on people. That only turns them away from your whole purpose of helping those without a voice.
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Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.
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...she came as near as ever she came to kneeling and thanking God for all good and all ill that He had ever sent upon her. She thought: next time I will wait and learn His purpose before I rail against His harshness. God was teacing her a mighty means of battle, she thought - a force stronger than force; He had whispered a secret in her ear - patience.
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God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).
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There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.
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My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
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Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
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It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then and I still don't have the temperament and don't care for drawing or painting or making art for any other purposes other my own.
