Purpose Quotes

Singles have a purpose that is higher than any earthly relationship. Marriage is honorable, but so is being single.

~ Monica Johnson

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

~ Marianne Williamson

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

~ Parker Palmer

Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.

~ Michael Dell

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

~ Jack London

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

~ Jared Polis

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.

~ Roy Lichtenstein

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

~ Mark Rothko

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

~ Henry Adams

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

~ Khalil Gibran

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

~ Jason Isbell

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

~ William S. Burroughs

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

~ Erik Brynjolfsson

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

~ Andy Rooney

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

~ William Henry Harrison

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

~ William Henry Harrison

The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

~ Lysander Spooner

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

~ Arlen Specter

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

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

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

~ Malcolm Forbes

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

~ Liberty Hyde Bailey

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

~ Enrique Pena Nieto

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

~ Sydney J. Harris

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

~ H. G. Bissinger

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

~ Joshua Reynolds

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

~ Harold Rosenberg

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

~ Nelson Mandela

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

~ John D. Rockefeller

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

~ Herbie Hancock

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

~ Adoniram Judson

A car for every purse and purpose.

~ Alfred P. Sloan

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

~ Saint Augustine

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.

~ David Cameron

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

~ Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

~ Dalai Lama

The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.

~ Kevin Plank

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

~ Sienna Miller

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

~ Hermann Hesse