Purpose Quotes - page 5

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. (Dave Barry)
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. View quote
Henepola Gunaratana
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. View quote
Christopher Columbus
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer. View quote
Adam Smith
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers. View quote
Adam Smith
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Thus the Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit. (John Ralston Saul)
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. View quote
Mark Strand
A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive. --Gaara. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found. View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. View quote
Cynthia Ozick
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose... it's like your broken. (Brian Selznick)
The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure. View quote
Eve Ensler
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. View quote
Camilo Jose Cela
If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose. View quote
Lee Strobel