Purpose Quotes

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

~ Adam Braun

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

~ George W. Bush

I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

~ Eve Arden

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

~ Carl Jung

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

~ H. G. Wells

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

~ Robert Bork

What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that they are the party of national growth, racial equality and unity of purpose. These Lincolnian themes will serve Republicans - and the nation - much better than becoming the party on the lookout for the supposed rat head of higher taxes.

~ Alan Siegel

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

~ Igor Stravinsky

Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.

~ Shinichi Suzuki

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

~ Dwight L. Moody

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

~ John Ruskin

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

~ Helen Keller

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

~ Arizona Muse

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

~ John Stossel

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

~ Alexander Alekhine

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

~ Marcel Proust

The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.

~ Tim Jackson

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

~ Jon Krakauer

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

~ Hugo Black

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

~ John Mason Brown

I always tell students that you've got to be practical. You do not need a dream. You need a purpose, something you can wake up to in the morning when the dream is dissipated.

~ Twyla Tharp

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

~ Paul Revere

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

~ Wayne Dyer

Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic.

~ Michael Hayden

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

~ Robert Mueller

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

~ Charles Mccarry

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

~ Alvar Aalto

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

~ Doug Tennapel

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

~ James Rouse

If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and our Bill of Rights, we must first thoroughly reexamine and learn about each of them, and uphold America's founding documents by testing every political action in light of them.

~ Chuck Norris

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

~ Daniel H. Pink

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

~ Mortimer Adler

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

~ Aristotle

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

~ John C. Maxwell

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

~ Bruce Springsteen

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

~ Charles Eames

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

~ Dale Carnegie

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

~ Hugo Black

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

~ Nelson Rockefeller