Purpose Quotes

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.

~ John Stuart Mill

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.

~ Steve Stockman

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

~ Aneurin Bevan

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

~ Rick Warren

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

~ Roger Penrose

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

~ Nick Vujicic

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

~ Ravi Zacharias

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

~ Thomas Clarkson

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament.

~ Rowan Williams

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.

~ Napoleon Hill

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

~ Max Planck

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

~ Derek Bok

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.

~ Buzz Aldrin

My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like they forget I'm a person. But you can't do anything about it. What are you going to do?

~ Rob Gronkowski

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

~ Frank Knox

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

~ George Washington

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

~ John Denver

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

~ Eduardo Galeano

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.

~ Coretta Scott King

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

~ Christine Lagarde

One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

~ Satya Nadella

All the organizations and officials of Chongryon, regarding this unity as the great foundation of the movement of Koreans in Japan, should rally themselves around the central leadership with one mind and purpose, and accomplish its patriotic cause, which was pioneered with comradely unity, by dint of comradeship.

~ Kim Jong-Un

So often, when we don't have people that can be representative or symbolic of leadership and of faith, of purpose, in that absence we become bitter and resentful.

~ Nate Parker

Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

~ Olympia Snowe

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not cover contraception for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.

~ Sandra Fluke

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

~ Nicolaus Copernicus

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

~ John F. Kennedy

There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.

~ Ernest Istook

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

~ Karen Salmansohn

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

~ Anne Wojcicki

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

~ Marshall Mcluhan

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

~ John Rampton

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

~ Mavis Staples

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

~ Alan Moore

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

~ James Gray

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

~ Roland Emmerich

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

~ Isoroku Yamamoto

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.

~ Sharron Angle

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

~ George Müller

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

~ David Hume