Purpose Quotes - page 6

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. (Dalai Lama)
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. View quote
Dalai Lama
What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses. View quote
Barry Diller
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. View quote
Bo Bennett
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. View quote
Dee Hock
The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing. View quote
Douglas J. Feith
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse. View quote
Issey Miyake
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose. View quote
Sara Gilbert
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. (Tracy Kidder)
The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending. View quote
Gordon Brown
I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country. View quote
Gordon Brown
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. View quote
Valerie Solanas
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. View quote
John Adams
The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it. View quote
Louis Agassiz
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. View quote
Alain de Botton
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation. (Alain de Botton)
Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes. View quote
Alain de Botton
If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose. View quote
William Lane Craig
If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on. View quote
James Thurber
Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose. View quote
William James