Purpose Quotes - page 3

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others. (Jamie Zawinski)
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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. View quote
Marie Corelli
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose. View quote
Roland Emmerich
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. View quote
Ruth Benedict
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. View quote
Michael Pollan
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. View quote
James Madison
...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. View quote
William Henry Harrison
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. (François Rabelais)
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. View quote
Ayn Rand
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. View quote
Roy Lichtenstein
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. View quote
Edmund Burke
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose. View quote
Mark Knopfler
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. View quote
Malcolm Forbes
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (George Bernard Shaw)
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. View quote
Robert Browning
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. View quote
Og Mandino
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. View quote
W. Clement Stone
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. View quote
Oscar Wilde