Purpose Quotes - page 4

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. (Oscar Wilde)
Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. View quote
Curtis Mayfield
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. View quote
Napoleon Hill
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. View quote
Leo Burnett
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing. View quote
H. L. Mencken
My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom. View quote
Annie Besant
The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires. A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist. (Lawrence M. Krauss)
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. View quote
J. William Fulbright
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. View quote
Pablo Picasso
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. View quote
Oswald Spengler
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. (Che Guevara)
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. View quote
Brian Tracy
Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains. View quote
Sam Walter Foss
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are! View quote
Eckhart Tolle
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. View quote
Kin Hubbard
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