Purpose Quotes

Nature creates nothing without a purpose. (Aristotle)
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. View quote
Aristotle
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. View quote
Alexander Alekhine
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. View quote
Sophia Loren
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. View quote
George Eliot
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. View quote
Norman Mailer
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience. View quote
George Washington
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. View quote
James Thurber
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. View quote
George Carlin
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road. (Thomas Carlyle)
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. View quote
Norman Mailer
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. View quote
Herbert Hoover
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. View quote
Florence Nightingale
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. View quote
Carl Jung
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. View quote
Anatole France
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. View quote
Bette Davis
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. (Karl Marx)
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. View quote
Quentin Crisp
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. View quote
Christopher Morley
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living. View quote
John Denver