Purpose Quotes

• What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

  

  Nita Ambani
  • Important
  • Passion
  • Legacy

• The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Purpose
  • Travel

• There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by...truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Truth
  • Problem
  • Difference

• The whole purpose of MixBit is to reuse the content within the system.

  Chad Hurley
  • Purpose

• State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Government
  • Authority
  • Ruin

• We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Purpose
  • Mediocre

• 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.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Purpose
  • Gym

• The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Universe
  • Happiness
  • Authority

• What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give.

  

  Narayanan Krishnan
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Give

• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Men
  • Moments
  • Goal

• The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that?

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Life
  • Purpose

• One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Thought
  • Answer
  • Price

• If I were Satan and my ultimate goal was to thwart God's kingdom and purposes, one of my main strategies would be to get churchgoers to ignore the Holy Spirit.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Goal
  • Spirit
  • Strategy

• All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Purpose

• The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Ignorance
  • Average
  • Cosmetics

• My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Purpose

• We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Thoughts

• We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

  

  Will Cuppy
  • Purpose
  • Mistakes
  • Intelligence

• It is in changing that things find purpose.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Purpose
  • Changing

• People don't listen to marketplace logic; they listen for meaning and purpose. Attention can't be bought. Before any interaction, ask yourself: 'How do I want to make people feel or act?' Put yourself in their shoes. The role of a leader is to create an experience that will inspire people to take action.

  

  Bill Jensen
  • Experience
  • Attention
  • Leader

• The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Purpose
  • Understanding
  • Yesterday

• You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

  

  Norton Juster
  • May
  • Reason
  • Faces

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