This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard Shaw
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Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.
Tom Krause
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
Robert Frost
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
George Washington
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
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
Rita Mae Brown
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
William Shakespeare
My purpose is to make my soul rhyme with my mind.
Saul Williams
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Alfred North Whitehead
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer
Progress results from persistence with purpose.
Frank Tyger
Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.
Frank Tyger
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Lord Chesterfield
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
The Dalai Lama
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
Howard Nemerov
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Christopher Morley
I'd look at the money involved and the purpose. If you've got the guy sending out people to break kneecaps, that's a little different than office pools.
Chris Oakley
The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us.
Norman Cousins
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
George Carlin
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.
John Stuart Mill
If someone in the public can help us accomplish that, that's our purpose.
Paul Moskal
The purpose creates the machine.
Arthur Young
What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used for, which is to power the device.
Angela Belcher
The initial purpose of the league was to give our local, deserving stars the opportunity of national attention right here in their own backyards.
Jeff Feldman
All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations.
Robert White
A protective order is just a piece of paper. The purpose … is so that the victim knows that … at least law enforcement is aware that this person is trying to harm them.
Anna Bernal
If you put cattle on this type of habitat, it's going to completely defeat the purpose of scrub restoration.
Laura Morris
The Purpose-Driven Life.
Suze Orman
I have found my life purpose. In a very tragic situation, I have found my life purpose.
Gail Powers
It's important for people to come to this hearing and voice their concerns and opinions. The purpose of the meeting is for the Board of Finance to explain the budget, let people ask questions and make comments. It's important the people understand the budget.
Russell Von Beren
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell
He didn't do that for any political purpose or anything like that. He did it because it was the right thing to do.
Adolph Rupp Jr
I needed a spark in my life. You become closer to the Lord. The word becomes alive and real. After the class, I felt God was talking to me and I knew my purpose was to bring his love to others.
Anne Angelelli
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
Newt Gingrich
The purpose of the report was to quantify and explain the economic value of aviation in South Carolina.
Karen Owens
The way to think of a supercomputer is as a special-purpose device. Only with these devices can we perform this cutting-edge research.
Jack Dongarra
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Hiring consultants to do these studies seems to have nothing to do with the original purpose of the panel. We're concerned about the direction the panel is taking.
Barbara Ward
It's been hard work. This has given them a huge sense of purpose and a sense of pride.
Capt. Shannon Rowe
Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
Andrew Von Eschenbach
He died so young whatever purpose he had in life I hope he fulfilled it.
Nancy Sams
The fixed terms are there for a purpose, and that is to protect the independence of the appointee, ... I don't think they ought to change the law.
Andrew Brimmer
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.
Sam Walter Foss
One huge advantage is Brent Sutter. This team will have structure and discipline and will be purposeful in its play.
Craig Button
The purpose of the National Guard never was to occupy another country.
Bob Hanson
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Frank Knox
The whole purpose of this drug benefit was to get drug coverage in the hands of all Medicare beneficiaries. Where are the people? That's the question.
Dan Mendelson
There was no business purpose to this other than to hide the loss. I knew this was not proper.
David Delainey
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager
This is the first meeting of the [committee] that was put together, ... Truly, until we had the federal grant in place, there was really no real purpose of meeting.
David Rice
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
Larry Wall
Of course. Is that a stain on the rug? I'll get it. It's my life, and that's my purpose, that stain. Imagine.
Brian Nichols
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
Henry Louis Mencken
The main purpose of these hearings is to get an idea on where the budget missed the boat with the community. No budget will ever please everybody. The City Council tries to address the concerns they hear about most. Sometimes, if the city does not get any strong message from these hearings, no changes are made.
Ceil Pettle
The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment.
John Walters
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Joseph Sobran
I oppose the prison and rezoning for the purpose of a prison.
Tom Curtis
To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.
James Cone
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis
The purpose of the increase is to maintain buying power. The amount of the increase is set by the U.S. Congress and it's based on Department of Labor statistics, in particular, the consumer price index.
Mark Lassiter
I am no professional politician-which is perhaps why I am continually obsessed by the question as to the purpose served by the work done by my friends and myself, as well as its final result.
Andrei Sakharov
We want to change the way people look at art, what its purpose can be, what social function it has. It can be playful and fun.
John Sutton
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler
All indicate that the suspect intentionally and deliberately drove onto the sidewalk with the intended purpose of striking the victims.
Tom Monahan
The purpose of the expos is to match federal agencies and big companies with veteran-owned business. The secondary goal is to help promote policy, understanding and communication.
Chris Hale
The purpose of this meeting was to examine the communications and promotional plan for CWC and to see where there could be synergy between CWC planning and sponsor activity.
Marvia Roach
We think it's sex discrimination. The purpose of treatments are to accomplish pregnancy, and to not pay for that medical treatment obviously affects women.
Patricia Collins
The purpose of why we come here is to provoke thought. Most students think it's a slam dunk against Christianity.
Jim Webber
Once the kids come, we encourage (dancers) to play with them to keep their minds off standing for 48 hours. Anything to keep their minds off of the pain. It's about being here for a purpose. They are the purpose.
Meghan Pituch
If I thought it was for the purpose of keeping me alive and my family alive, I guess I'd give up a little bit of privacy.
Bruce Cheney
No one is truly doing very well. One surely isn't here to do well. Surely we have another purpose: Perhaps to know who one is, to know that which makes us suffer and that which causes suffering for others; maybe to love someone... Perfection is the ability to admit imperfection.
Anne Parillaud
That's all we're focused on, making the top eight in the region and getting that at-large bid. We have a purpose for the way we're playing right now. We're trying to get in.
Mark Borders
I'm sure he did that on purpose.
Connor Jostes
I didn't know what the purpose was. But I do know I couldn't have bought the business without that loan.
Larry Tholl
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Cynthia Ozick
This is part of our responsibility to assist in the non-aviation domain. The whole purpose is that people will not know when we're going to be there or if we are going to be there. It's a preventative approach.
David Adams
We allege the scheme was for the purpose of evading the statutes of limitations.
Michael Dowd
We are not projecting this as a general purpose PDA (personal digital assistant) but we will use this as a platform to deliver various IT initiatives.
Mark Mathias
They never used it for the intended purpose, ... The whole intent was to give them resources so they could plan an evacuation of New Orleans that anticipated that a very large number of people would never leave.
Billy Tauzin
All of these resolutions were adopted under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter which allows the use of force for the express purpose of restoring international peace and security.
Lord Goldsmith
When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ... If you didn't make the crowds happy, they wouldn't throw any money in your hat. 'Punch and Judy' hasn't lasted 300 and some years because it wasn't fun to watch.
Tom Tucker
Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
C. Neil Strait
We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.
Robert Randall
Coach said he set these two games up back-to-back like this on purpose. We're trying to get our revenge.
Patrick Patterson
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.
Adlin Sinclair
We've signed a four-year deal, but there is a break in January, the purpose of which is really just to see how Du Wei settles over the next few months.
Peter Lawwell
The mind must see visual achievement of the purpose before action is initiated.
Mack R. Douglas
I want your ... brothers and so on to kill my so-called family and friends. (T)hat's the whole purpose for killing you.
Alvin Starks
Alignment occurs when team members each find opportunity to express their true purpose and achieve their goals through the organization. When alignment is present, I expand my purpose to include the organization's purpose.
Phil Bryson
You start with the educational purpose, but with any technology, teens will find other uses for it than the main one. Almost all of them do things that we never get around to. Even the graphing calculators for math come with their own games, and the kids will discover them.
Laura Behrens
These rules serve the important purpose of ensuring that the listening public knows when someone is seeking to influence them.
David Fiske
I've done better than I actually thought I was going to. In the beginning of spring practice, I was lost. The mental part, it's just a lot faster. ... I was on the field just out there. I didn't have a purpose; I wasn't making that much of an impact. Now I think I've gotten a lot better.
Myron Rolle
The entire purpose of this tour is to put local Texas officials coping with hurricane recovery and damage face to face with the secretary who will be making the decisions on where those precious dollars end up.
Sarah Stephens
To my knowledge the money hasn't been used for that purpose.
Peter Adang
During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.
Bashir Ahmed
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
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.
Marianne Williamson
We therefore urge the local authority to be innovative and forge partnerships with the private sector for the purpose of joint ventures in the provision of housing to those in need of accommodation.
Cde Karimanzira
I don't think any player should be allowed to crash on purpose into another player. I will always argue that.
Sebastian Merlos
It was designed as a multi-purpose building so that you can do a variety of events.
Christopher Stephenson
Certain e-journals may likely only be viewed from the reading room because anything else might undermine the publisher's business model, and that is not the purpose of a legal deposit.
Richard Boulderstone
We don't view ourselves as being in the real estate business. The purpose of this project is to provide a headquarters expansion in an economically viable manner.
Brian Goerke
With the economy being sluggish as it is, even though there are some signs of improvement, now is the time to put money back into the economy with a purpose, and that's to create jobs.
Lindsey Graham
It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.
Mario Hernandez
Somehow we just need to find more energy coming out of the locker room. I don't know exactly why we do that, it's not on purpose, but we've just got to find more energy.
Travis Parker
Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?
Richard Bush
If a device has two purposes, the primary purpose will trump the second.
Thom Mocarsky
You told dispatch you didn't shoot her on purpose, ... Did you shoot her on purpose?
Andrew Benson
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Eric Hoffer
The real art is bringing (each dummy) to life. The whole purpose is to make the people connect with that character. Not for them to see if your mouth is moving.
Lori White
Our roadways are not designed for that kind of speed, ... Our roads are engineered for the purpose of 55 to 65 mph. Only racetracks are engineered and banked for that kind of speed.
Laurent Philonenko
We went back and forth and we could never get the details worked out. When it became obvious that it was not just a state dinner, it was more of a fundraising event, that is the wrong purpose of why we are here.
Joe Simpson
I know he tends to float that way, whether or not he does it on purpose. He's able to find places where the defense can't find him.
Bryan Mullins
Defensively, we played with a purpose in the first half. Our kids took advantage of what Eminence gave us in the first half. Our seniors were focused on this game and getting the Powder Keg back.
Chris Sampson
The purpose of the activity is to bring horsemen, horse lovers, lovers of art, and artists together with the general public. It's very difficult to find that kind of art.
Judy Thompson
The tilting of the playing field in favor of their hometown corporation makes Pennsylvania an unsafe place for investors. The whole purpose of law is to provide predictability, and what the legislature appears to be doing is to change in the middle of the game the rules that everyone was playing by.
Greg Taxin
I think the WHI findings make it absolutely clear that nobody should be encouraging women to take hormones for the purpose of primary prevention of heart disease.
Marcia Stefanick
It's good to finally be able to give a name to the child, ... It really gives us in the community and us in law enforcement a sense of purpose. We know who we are going to be fighting for.
Michael Sanders
This vulgar victim-bashing is very inappropriate and serves no other purpose than to further victimize our child victim.
Randy Means
The images in the gallery are not intended as illustrations of mathematical facts. They more than fulfill their purpose if people see them and can feel some of the intriguing enchantment that a mathematician feels when exploring the mathematical objects.
Matthias Weber
If there is an invitation and there's a purpose for doing something, then we might consider it.
Finley Peter Dunne
The purpose of this display is to create awareness of our population.
Gary Olson
Our purpose is to push the security envelope overseas.
Russ Knocke
It's kind of like when there's an open pit latrine behind a trailer. Yes, it does serve a purpose, but it's illegal and it's dangerous and we don't allow them in the state of Alabama.
Derrick Harris
They've taken a lot of points from us, and we're going to have to be ready. They'll be coming in here with a purpose.
Peter Laviolette
The purpose of this investigation is to thoroughly examine pricing practices in the industry and get to the bottom of what appear to be some illegal pricing practices.
Darren Dopp
My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
Martha Carey Thomas
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke
They came to Cumberland County with one purpose to sell cocaine.
Tom Corbett
There is no reason to feel guilty for re-gifting because the main purpose that someone gives you a gift is to give you pleasure.
Bruce Weinstein
The purpose is to get friends together to have a great time and create some fun pictures in the process.
Daniel Tieken
Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.
Curtis Mayfield
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.
Bertrand Russell
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will.
Ferdinand Foch
I know what my purpose is being here. Just help the team win and get back to the Final Four, try to win an NCAA championship.
Matt Trannon
I always make it a point to teach them to know what they are singing, its purpose, composers, and historical background on the period it was written.
Charlie Toomer
Sir, the object of the Flagg, which crossed the River, was to propose a cessation of hostilities for one hour for the purpose of entering into a negotiation for the surrender of Detroit.
William Hull
That means we can go to places with a common front as a recruitment council. We will be helping each other for one purpose, which is to help these kids.
Carrie Zerafa
The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Auberon Herbert
If an exchange fails to secure normal trading, this calls into question its purpose.
Kaoru Yosano
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
This is a new offense for all of us. Just as I'm learning, Kyle's learning. Everybody is learning on the run. You just have to be patient. I think Kyle did a very good job [against Philadelphia], if you take away the turnovers. . . . He's not doing things on purpose, he's trying to make plays. In the midst of trying to make plays, things happen.
Derrick Mason
No party is entirely subject to what happens to any one individual. We have a sense of purpose, we have great deal to do and a great opportunity in which to do it.
Menzies Campbell
I have always instilled in him everything has a purpose, whether it's to be good or not so good, it has a purpose. He is always looking for a window of opportunity even in adversity.
Daphne Maxwell
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
They came out with a purpose and we weren't able to match it.
Peter Hafner
The purpose of this project is to improve traffic flow and safety.
Roberta Crowe
That's the sole purpose of this event.
Salim Stoudamire
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
Vanna Bonta
The state's position is that the bankruptcy filings in both cases were frivolous and for the sole purpose of delaying the eviction.
Tom Mccarthy
We formed LANS for the sole purpose of delivering to DOE and to the Laboratory the best combination of scientific and management expertise. Our team is eager to apply our expertise and capabilities to further benefit the Laboratory and the security of our nation.
Gerald Parsky
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer
He's not a yes man. The purpose of these meetings is to have a dialogue.
Raj Bharwani
...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
The purpose of this memo is to advise you to closely monitor personal financial information -- including personal credit reports -- in the wake of these disturbing developments.
Carl Forti
This was like our birthday. Before the game, we said, 'It starts from today.' We came here with a purpose, and I thought we played with one. We got the job done, and, hey, we're in first place, right?
Colt Brennan
Are obviously being viciously spun for the blatant political purpose of destroying my credibility at this key moment -- when our criticisms of NASA and the current rover mission are gaining legs. This is what someone is apparently quite concerned about.
Richard Hoagland
It's better to die for a purpose, than to live with none.
Ray Bedard
He apologized for it about 20 million times. He's a good guy. I know he would never do anything like that on purpose.
Gavin Grant
This was done for the purpose of having the people be able to use the playground equipment, ... I would never award a contract in a way that would have a negative effect on the people of Long Beach Township. This was all done in the best interest of them.
Robert Palmer
Their primary purpose is to learn more about local government's function in a free-market economy.
Scott Wood
I've done thousands of interviews but never for the sole purpose of getting to know someone better.
Tom Rankin
The capabilities of the satellite speak for themselves. I do not need to say anything about what the purpose of its use might be.
Shimon Eckhaus
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