Purpose Quotes
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A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.
Margaret Bourke-White
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As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.
Gerhard Tersteegen
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I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.
Ethan Zohn
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There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.
Johann Lamont
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When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.
Betty Sue Flowers
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
Seth Godin
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Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
Shinichi Suzuki
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God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.
Michael Horton
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Religion is something that is very well intentioned, for all intents and purposes, for everyone around the world, but sometimes it can start to get warped.
Michelle Monaghan
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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?
William Allingham
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The purpose of art is mystery.
Rene Magritte
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Because a true sense of purpose is deeply emotional, it serves as a compass to guide us to act in a way completely consistent with our values and beliefs. Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic.
Simon Sinek
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I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life.
Narayanan Krishnan
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
Will Durant
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The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.
William Shakespeare
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Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston
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My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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What is the purpose of life if not to conquer? To steal women and land? I would rather be here and see this than live out my life in peace.
Conn Iggulden
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Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.
Eugen Herrigel
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The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
Vint Cerf
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Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.
Alice Bailey
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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.
Abraham Lincoln
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.
Mother Teresa