Purpose Quotes
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Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.
Debbie Ford
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It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
Henry Ward Beecher
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You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
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Building up an organisation is like starting a social movement. At the center of everything is the core team. I have the honor of working with some phenomenal people at Purpose who are at the top of their fields. That energy and common purpose among the team is what inspires me and where the magic happens.
Jeremy Heimans
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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
William Shakespeare
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Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.
George Muller
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
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Many times when something irritates us we allow it to fester or grow into a slow burn. We allow our mind to tell us the person is doing it on purpose-just to be irritating. Usually, that is far from the truth
Pam Farrel
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An organization's culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit.
Punit Renjen
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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
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We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation.
Frans van Houten
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It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
John Quincy Adams
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I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.
Charles McCarry
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If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
Peter Diamandis
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In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.
T. S. Eliot
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Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.
Gerald Schroeder
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I believe very strongly that guns are instruments of death. That's all they're used for; there's no purpose for them other than to kill. I think you have to understand that in order to respect them. I have no fear of my teenage son handling weapons, because he has that respect.
Jesse Ventura
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Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.
Geoffrey Elton
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God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep,But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit,And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap.
James Russell Lowell
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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
William Shakespeare
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
Miroslav Vitous
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If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The opposite of fragmentation is not homogenization, which is a suspicious form of unity. Who wants blending, anyway? And for what purpose? Blending, somehow, always ends up privileging the perspective of the blade.
Etienne Wenger