Purpose Quotes

‘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 life is a life of purpose.’ – Robert Byrne

‘A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.’ – Marla Gibbs

‘The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘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

‘As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.’ – Carl Jung

‘Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.’ – Malcolm Forbes

‘Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.’ – Mitch Albom

‘The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.’ – Helen Keller

‘The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.’ – Kallam Anji Reddy

‘The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.’ – Charlie Chaplin

‘Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.’ – Anatole France

‘I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.’ – Kobe Bryant

‘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

‘Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.’ – Ayn Rand

‘Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘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

‘The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.’ – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

‘The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away.’ – Victoria Arlen

‘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

‘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.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.’ – Andy Dunn

‘When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.’ – Howard Schultz

‘The purpose of all wars, is peace.’ – Saint Augustine

‘Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.’ – James E. Faust

‘Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.’ – James Madison

‘The secret of success is constancy to purpose.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.’ – Ruth Benedict

‘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’s a lot of things we go through and we don’t even know why… At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that’s kind of how I take that.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘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

‘Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘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

‘To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘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

‘I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.’ – David Livingstone

‘We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.’ – Willie Nelson

‘I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‘Where’s the self-help section?’ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.’ – George Carlin

‘I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that’s the basis of Greek mythology.’ – Brendan Fraser

‘Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.’ – Sitting Bull

‘The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.’ – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

‘A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.’ – Kerry Kennedy

‘Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘I discovered that no revival comes if we don’t preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.’ – John D. Rockefeller

‘You weren’t born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success… Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.’ – Myles Munroe

‘Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.’ – Dolly Parton

‘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

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

‘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

‘There is a divine purpose behind everything – and therefore a divine presence in everything.’ – Neale Donald Walsch

‘The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.’ – Richard Grant

‘Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.’ – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

‘Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.’ – Michael Franti

‘The sole purpose of the bedroom is to melt away any stressors.’ – Jonathan Scott

‘People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that’s already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.’ – Michael Moore

‘Winners are people with definite purpose in life.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.’ – Cecil Beaton

‘Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘Rise above and soar like eagles to your purpose!’ – Porsha Williams

‘As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional – your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.’ – Chris Fussell

‘Success demands singleness of purpose.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘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

‘There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.’ – Sharron Angle

‘We have a duty to show up in the world with meaning and purpose and commitment to doing good. And to use any privilege that we have to make positive change and to disrupt oppressive systems.’ – Meena Harris

‘Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple.’ – Jonathan Ive

‘If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war – a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.’ – Ambrose Burnside

‘Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.’ – Charles Eames

‘War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.’ – Colin Powell

‘A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.’ – Gary Hamel

‘The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.’ – Glenn Gould

‘I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.’ – Christopher Columbus

‘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

‘Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.’ – Bo Bennett

‘To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?’ – Marie Kondo

‘I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.’ – Og Mandino

‘If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.’ – Red Skelton

‘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

‘The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

‘The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.’ – Tony Blair

‘There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.’ – Peng Liyuan

‘I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that’s a large part of my purpose.’ – Misty Copeland

‘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

‘There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It’s not there by chance.’ – Roger Penrose

‘When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘I believe that if you don’t derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don’t come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don’t feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.’ – T. B. Joshua

‘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 purpose of a business is to create a customer.’ – Peter Drucker

‘Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned – it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘Just because you got money doesn’t mean you’re gonna be happy, and just ‘cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn’t mean you’re gonna find your purpose.’ – Logic

‘The purpose – where I start – is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it’s reuse.’ – Issey Miyake

‘The purpose of life is to explore one’s own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.’ – Kelsang Gyatso

‘I was raised as an Orthodox Jew in a major neighborhood specializing in that, in Brooklyn. And somewhere when I was about 14, something changed. And that change probably involved updating every molecule in my body, in that I sort of realized: this is nonsense, there’s no God, there’s no free will, there is no purpose.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.’ – Mavis Staples

‘Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.’ – Sophia Loren

‘Once a song’s out there, it’s no longer mine. And that’s the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.’ – Sade Adu

‘People who achieve the highest levels of success – whether in business or in raising families or simply in discovering fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose in life – are those who place their focus on other people rather than themselves.’ – Richard M. DeVos

‘Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.’ – George Halas

‘I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.’ – Andy Rooney

‘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

‘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

‘Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.’ – Joyce Meyer

‘The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.’ – Clint Smith

‘There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.’ – Johann Lamont

‘Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other’s strengths.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.’ – Daniel H. Pink

‘And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It’s simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It’s a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.’ – Gyles Brandreth

‘I’m not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don’t like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader’s sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.’ – Chanakya

‘Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.’ – Mary Shelley

‘The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.’ – Aneurin Bevan

‘Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.’ – David Droga

‘I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.’ – John Green

‘My purpose is changing perceptions so people with disability, people like me can get out there and live the lives that they deserve to live.’ – Dylan Alcott

‘America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.’ – George H. W. Bush

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

‘The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose.’ – Julie Foudy

‘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

‘Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.’ – Marcel Proust

‘There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.’ – David Petraeus

‘More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.’ – Billy Sunday

‘Personally, I don’t think it is acceptable to manipulate the human germline for the purpose of changing some genetic traits that will be transmitted over generations.’ – Emmanuelle Charpentier

‘The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.’ – Frans van Houten

‘African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.’ – Mos Def

‘I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.’ – Marie Corelli

‘Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.’ – Adam Smith

‘So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God’s sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.’ – T. D. Jakes

‘My purpose… to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.’ – Juliette Gordon Low

‘Millennials are more aware of society’s many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.’ – Michael Porter

‘The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.’ – George Eliot

‘The purpose of Disneyland is to make people smile.’ – Kevin Plank

‘The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.’ – Gregor Mendel

‘You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.’ – Tracy Kidder

‘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

‘Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.’ – James Dean

‘My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.’ – George Armstrong Custer

‘The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.’ – Emma Goldman

‘A car for every purse and purpose.’ – Alfred P. Sloan

‘The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.’ – Bernard Baruch

‘There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.’ – Georges St-Pierre

‘Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.’ – Shinichi Suzuki

‘A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.’ – Immanuel Kant

‘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

‘When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.’ – Bono

‘I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with ‘we’ I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.’ – Frans de Waal

‘In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.’ – Matt Bellamy

‘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

‘The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.’ – Richard Holloway

‘If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about which you are passionate, dedicate yourself to that purpose.’ – Janet Yellen

‘I don’t have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.’ – Nick Cave

‘Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people’s lives.’ – Tim Tebow

‘When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.’ – Menachem Mendel Schneerson

‘My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.’ – Elijah Cummings

‘It’s so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud – because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift – from negative beliefs about the world – to positive beliefs – and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘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

‘The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.’ – David Boies

‘We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.’ – Marshall McLuhan

‘I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.’ – Christopher Morley

‘It is not a Pandora’s box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.’ – John Sulston

‘Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that’s you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there’s a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.’ – Keke Palmer

‘I don’t belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism – although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.’ – Jane Campion

‘Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.’ – David Hume

‘I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.’ – Shirley MacLaine

‘After all, what is your host’s purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.’ – Mary Kay Ash

‘To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.’ – James Allen

‘For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.’ – Ama Ata Aidoo

‘Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited… It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.’ – Nikita Khrushchev

‘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

‘The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.’ – James Thomson

‘The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

‘Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.’ – Lee Kuan Yew

‘Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.’ – S. Truett Cathy

‘Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants – that that’s our purpose.’ – Karl Ove Knausgard

‘I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.’ – William Henry Harrison

‘My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.’ – Andrei Tarkovsky

‘The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.’ – William E. Simon

‘I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.’ – Steven Pinker

‘If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.’ – Alan Mulally

‘Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.’ – Robert Greene

‘I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It’s just that simple.’ – Jane Seymour

‘I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.’ – Kevin Gates

‘Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.’ – Howard Thurman

‘Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.’ – Philip Johnson

‘There are no wishy-washy astronauts. You don’t get up there by being uncaring and blase. And whatever gave you the sense of tenacity and purpose to get that far in life is absolutely reaffirmed and deepened by the experience itself.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable.’ – James Rouse

‘But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.’ – Robert Browning

‘Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.’ – Mitski

‘Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.’ – James Dobson

‘The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.’ – Richard Hamming

‘The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.’ – John Cage

‘I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.’ – Friedrich St. Florian

‘Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There’s no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that’s all it is.’ – George Harrison

‘Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.’ – Guy Finley

‘It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘The purpose of our lives is to be happy.’ – Dalai Lama

‘The purpose of language is to communicate. That’s the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.’ – Michael J. Knowles

‘I choose to fill my days with what I’m passionate about, and live with purpose.’ – Ann Curry

‘The theme of the Labor Department’s centennial is ‘Then, Now, Next.’ So in honoring Esther Peterson, we look not just to the past but to the future, acknowledging with honesty and a sense of purpose the lingering challenges we still face and the distance we’ve yet to travel before equality is truly a reality in the lives of all women.’ – Tom Perez

‘Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don’t talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.’ – Ntozake Shange

‘Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.’ – Lajos Egri

‘During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.’ – Daniel Boone

‘Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.’ – Lowell Thomas

‘Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.’ – Sargent Shriver

‘The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.’ – Roland Emmerich

‘So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.’ – Robert Mueller

‘The purpose of my songwriting is to put the things I have been through in a song in order to help others who may be in a similar situation.’ – Guy Sebastian

‘The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.’ – Rita Rudner

‘I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.’ – Norman Mailer

‘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

‘Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man’s reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.’ – William Cowper

‘We need to have a purpose in this life. I’m pleading with you, I’m begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.’ – James McGreevey

‘If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself – your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.’ – Dee Hock

‘The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘You gotta question the purpose you serve for those who invite themselves into your life. Learn who you are and always question the motive. No one knows you the way you do.’ – Brent Faiyaz

‘I was like, weird on purpose. I wanted to be an outcast.’ – Rico Nasty

‘No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.’ – Jake Owen

‘All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.’ – Vinoba Bhave

‘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

‘The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.’ – Will Cuppy

‘When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!’ – Thabo Mbeki

‘The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.’ – Stephen Moore

‘The purpose of torture is not getting information. It’s spreading fear.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.’ – Jamie Zawinski

‘From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.’ – Adam Grant

‘Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.’ – Thomas Aquinas

‘Even when we’re keeping possession, I don’t want to see the ball move slowly. What does that mean? When we pass it, we pass it with purpose.’ – Angelos Postecoglou

‘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

‘They seem to have forgotten that, and are back saying the only purpose of P2P networks is for illegal trading of owned goods. We claim part of the reason for P2P is for legal trading of what ought to be in public domain. And what is in public domain in many cases.’ – John Perry Barlow

‘I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be – it might be homelessness, whatever – and lately, I’ve redefined success as ‘fulfilling your soul’s purpose.” – Jack Canfield

‘Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.’ – Stephen Fry

‘Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.’ – Tatyana Tolstaya

‘And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man’s purpose is for the glorification of God.’ – Jamey Johnson

‘He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.’ – Henry Adams

‘The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.’ – William Temple

‘If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘I’ve been grinding a really long time, and I’ve been broke for a lot of years. I may not have looked like it because, if you’re fly, you don’t need a dollar – you just need charisma. But I was riding hope as currency for a very long time. I feel like now, more than ever, I’m in my purpose, and comedy is the foundation of that.’ – Amanda Seales

‘Belize is so raw and so clear and so in-your-face. There’s an opportunity to see something about human nature that you can’t really see in a politer society, because the purpose of society is to mask ourselves from each other.’ – John McAfee

‘I don’t think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.’ – Scott Turow

‘Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘I’ve always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.’ – Pauley Perrette

‘Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a ‘test’ as all opportunities are tests.’ – Peter Kreeft

‘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

‘The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.’ – Maria Montessori

‘You have a lot of people asking for town halls with the purpose of disrupting a town hall.’ – Lee Zeldin

‘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 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

‘Everything I’ve done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that’s not the perfect way. Maybe that’s not the easiest way. But it’s the best way I knew how to do it.’ – Julia Roberts

‘My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.’ – The Weeknd

‘The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves – a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.’ – William J. Brennan, Jr.

‘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.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘As awful as the crimes of Stalinism were, the vast majority of the Russian population was trying to survive, to love, to have a sense of purpose.’ – Amor Towles

‘It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.’ – Walter Benjamin

‘The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things.’ – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

‘I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.’ – Dave Barry

‘The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God’s family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.’ – Charles Stanley

‘One false word, one extra word, and somebody’s thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you’re going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.’ – Patricia Marx

‘Motorsport gave me a purpose. It gave me a reason to overcome my condition.’ – Nicolas Hamilton

‘Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.’ – Frank Knox

‘A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.’ – Gary Zukav

‘The will is never free – it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car – it can’t steer.’ – Joyce Cary

‘Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an ‘outer you’ that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an ‘inner you.’ You have a spirit. And it’s constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.’ – John Ortberg

‘My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.’ – Wynonna Judd

‘Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘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

‘Panda – We’re not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.’ – Andrew Cherng

‘I know that God is intentional with everything that He brings to me and what He does for me. I’m not here just to be here. God made me intentionally! He created me on purpose, for a reason! To throw the shot put for sure. That’s one of the things I am created to do.’ – Michelle Carter

‘As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Purpose is what gives life a meaning.’ – Charles Henry Parkhurst

‘As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I am all too aware of the real meaning of the list and of its purpose. Promoted by Turning Point USA, the list is not simply designed to expose professors who discriminate; it is designed to silence and smear.’ – Anthea Butler

‘My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.’ – Sherman Alexie

‘Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.’ – Carl Jung

‘Personally, I can handle criticism, especially when it is deserved, and it’s because my dad never, ever said ‘Well done’ to me. He did it on purpose so that I kept my feet on the ground.’ – Granit Xhaka

‘I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .’ – David Niven

‘My purpose is to write, be creative; to take my God-given talent and do something positive with it.’ – Jani Lane

‘If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty – not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.’ – Ron Paul

‘Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.’ – Bo Bennett

‘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

‘I wrote a few children’s books… not on purpose.’ – Steven Wright

‘A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.’ – Peace Pilgrim

‘I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There’s a purpose for why you’re in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!’ – Nick Vujicic

‘When you’re an artist, you’re working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it’s probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.’ – Kali Uchis

‘We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.’ – Christopher Columbus

‘If we went to the Tour, I’d have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I’m not sure I want that pressure.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘I still follow the lifestyle of the Mormon church. I try to go to church every Sunday even when I’m on tour. It’s not only my upbringing, but it helps me stay sane. It helps me remember my purpose and the overall picture of what is important to me and what makes me happy.’ – Lindsey Stirling

‘It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.’ – Walter Scott

‘What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘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

‘The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.’ – Arlen Specter

‘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.’ – Oswald Spengler

‘The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.’ – Vince Lombardi

‘Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.’ – Sam Harris

‘The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!’ – Bill Watterson

‘The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.’ – Jim Elliot

‘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

‘My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‘The Intoxication of Life,’ ‘The Purpose of Life,’ ‘The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,’ ‘The Journey to the Goal in Life,’ and, one of my favorites, ‘The Heart of Man.’ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don’t want to compromise.’ – Vidal Sassoon

‘With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren’t laughing, it’s not comedy. It’s as simple as that.’ – Trevor Noah

‘What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.’ – Edward Abbey

‘What it meant for me to win the Emmy is I found it. It’s not just the award. It’s what it’s going to mean to young girls – young brown girls, especially. When they saw a physical manifestation of a dream, I felt like I had fulfilled a purpose.’ – Viola Davis

‘In ECW, hardcore wrestling wasn’t done just for the fun of it. It was done for a purpose, for a reason. And for me, it was done to exist and produce a revenue for my family.’ – Terry Funk

‘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 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

‘If I’m a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.’ – Jewel

‘Glogg is a Scandinavian mulled wine, sweetened with honey, almonds, raisins and spices. Its name suits its purpose so beautifully.’ – Susie Dent

‘Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.’ – Napoleon Hill

‘I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Once I started to get aligned with the God in me, something hit me hard: I learned that our worth, our validation, our purpose and our acceptance don’t stem from what we should do. They don’t stem from what we have. They don’t stem from what we’ve done or who we were. They stem simply from the fact that we are.’ – Grace Gealey

‘There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other, infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.’ – James P. Carse

‘I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that’s the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.’ – Brian Clough

‘Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.’ – Gene Tunney

‘An organization’s culture of purpose answers the critical questions of who it is and why it exists. They have a culture of purpose beyond making a profit.’ – Punit Renjen

‘I think the purpose of veganism is an appreciation for plants and veggies and fruit and to just eating cleaner… If you’re going to go vegan, then really learn how to be.’ – Antoni Porowski

‘I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.’ – Scott Rudin

‘The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.’ – Norman Finkelstein

‘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

‘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

‘I am not on this planet to get something done – the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.’ – Paul Williams

‘God’s purpose is more important than our plans.’ – Myles Munroe

‘I declare that President Trump will overcome every strategy from hell and every strategy from the enemy, and he will fulfill his calling and his destiny. I secure his calling, I secure his purpose, I secure his family, and we secure victory in the name which is above every name – the name of Jesus Christ.’ – Paula White

‘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

‘You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That’s not what this is about to them.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.’ – Charles Babbage

‘Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.’ – T. D. Jakes

‘Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.’ – Siegfried Sassoon

‘Visuals are compelling, but sometimes the only way to get your point of view and purpose across is through words. Great copy can be embedded in any medium, any technology.’ – David Droga

‘My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be… good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody – right where you are, God is.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.’ – Karl Kraus

‘As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.’ – Moliere

‘Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.’ – Orson Welles

‘In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster ‘comprehension.” – Walter Kirn

‘A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne

‘I love being deaf because it’s given me a purpose, it’s given me something to aim for.’ – Rose Ayling-Ellis

‘If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.’ – William J. Clinton

‘A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘I do the right thing on purpose. I don’t do it by accident.’ – Herm Edwards

‘Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.’ – Anselm Kiefer

‘It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.’ – Roy Moore

‘No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Brexiteers often hark back to the blitz. Maybe they think the ‘Britain standing alone’ motif adds much-needed heroic purpose to a Brexit future in which Britain stands without trading partners or allies to tackle climate change.’ – Ed Davey

‘The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.’ – James E. Faust

‘To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t’ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.’ – Carlos Castaneda

‘Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘I like using traditional beliefs in my fantasies, even though I always end up warping them to suit my purpose: it somehow makes everything feel more ‘solid’ if it’s got a long history behind it.’ – Jonathan Stroud

‘When you’re in love, you’ve found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it’s completely apparent it’s not. You have to rethink your whole purpose.’ – Scott Weiland

‘The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can’t fulfill it if I’m out of shape.’ – Rick Warren

‘I’m just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it’s not usually on purpose.’ – Beck

‘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

‘If we say the purpose of life is our children, that’s neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I’m sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.’ – Rory Stewart

‘I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue – rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘I honestly now know that I’m the physical embodiment of hip-hop on earth. That’s my only purpose here on earth is to keep the culture together long enough for it to remain everything that we thought it could be when I was coming up.’ – KRS-One

‘If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.’ – Harold MacMillan

‘There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion to the Savior without also obtaining a greater sense of purpose, identity, and conviction.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.’ – Hal David

‘I certainly can’t speak for all cultures or all societies, but it’s clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It’s not part of the cultural mainstream.’ – Mark Strand

‘Popularity gets up people’s noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Money can’t heal your heart. Money can’t give you purpose. I don’t want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don’t want arms and legs, I want peace. I don’t want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘I love fashion. I love couture. I’m going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month. I want them to serve another purpose.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘I’ve always been a very sensitive person, and people tell me that if I’m in a certain mood, and I go into a room, my mood will permeate the room. It’s not on purpose – I’d rather be invisible in those moments – but I’m really bad at faking how I feel.’ – Rooney Mara

‘The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.’ – Edward Teller

‘The purpose creates the machine.’ – Arthur Young

‘What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it’s to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that’s a wonderful thing.’ – Michael J. Knowles

‘I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.’ – Yitzhak Rabin

‘The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.’ – Dalai Lama

‘What is the purpose of being human and alive without doing new things?’ – John Sulston

‘Marvel, I think, on purpose, they don’t tell me certain things. Because they know I’ll be like, ‘So here’s what’s gonna happen.’ But I do know I will be in ‘Thor 3′ and that Sif will have a very pivotal part in that movie.’ – Jaimie Alexander

‘I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.’ – Yo-Yo Ma

‘Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.’ – James Allen

‘Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose – and you allow him to make war at pleasure.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘When you get a young group of people that believe, are passionate… and committed to a single purpose, you better look out. Great things can happen.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill… its purpose is to reach a political goal.’ – Abu Abbas

‘Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.’ – Ravi Zacharias

‘Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘I took a few months off after my senior year was over, and I prayed and tried to figure out what was my plan and my purpose. That’s how I started writing songs and playing guitar just to get my feelings out.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.’ – Ann Romney

‘Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.’ – Dan Buettner

‘I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.’ – Amanda Seales

‘The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else’s life.’ – Neil MacGregor

‘The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It’s unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt.’ – David Malpass

‘I’ve spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in… my business, my career and the roller coaster ride… how the people I associated with worked together.’ – Diahann Carroll

‘Success isn’t always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.’ – Allan Houston

‘The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it’s worked.’ – David Suzuki

‘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

‘At the end of the day, people will follow you or people will be energised by you if they buy into your vision or purpose. So the most important thing is to be true to yourself. That’s why I would say to be a great leader – you, first and foremost, have to be a great human being. And sharing that purpose and sharing the values.’ – Paul Polman

‘Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.’ – William Temple

‘God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.’ – Robert South

‘My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.’ – Manfred von Richthofen

‘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

‘The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people’s hopes.’ – Freeman Dyson

‘Let’s get real: the .GIF format is outdated and is not really that great for the modern web anymore. It was created in 1989, and it wasn’t even created for the purpose of animation.’ – Alan Schaaf

‘Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.’ – Jesse Kellerman

‘I actually flunked the 10th grade on purpose.’ – Too Short

‘A job is something you do for money. Your life’s work is done for a bigger purpose… And when you manage to find that work – that’s when it starts feeling like play.’ – Chip Gaines

‘The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.’ – Henry Adams

‘To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.’ – Mother Angelica

‘You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.’ – E. F. Schumacher

‘Mankind’s role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘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

‘When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil’s Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.’ – Dick Durbin

‘Patience is key, as long as you have a purpose.’ – Rudy Ruettiger

‘My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.’ – Deborah Tannen

‘Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn’t realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They’ve plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it’s daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there’s a purpose to everything.’ – Robbie Williams

‘In TV the main purpose is to have them keep their hands off the dial. In movies, where you have a captive audience, the opening is intrinsic to the film.’ – Saul Bass

‘Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself. Find your purpose. You are unique, and that makes you great. I pursued my dreams. You can do it, too.’ – Karen Civil

‘I’ve been harassed. I’ve been stalked. I’ve had every public pre-transition photo of me compiled alongside my deadname with the purpose of never letting me be my true gender.’ – ContraPoints

‘Everybody has a purpose.’ – Dolly Parton

‘You may go to the temple for mental peace. But you may be distracted there and forget the purpose of your visit. But this does not happen when you hear good music.’ – Ilaiyaraaja

‘Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.’ – Jim Ramstad

‘I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called ‘honeytraps’, and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose.’ – Alexander Nix

‘We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what’s to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.’ – Alfred Marshall

‘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

‘Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.’ – Henry Steele Commager

‘When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain… I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.’ – Ayn Rand

‘Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations – in ’93 and ’94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.’ – J. C. Watts

‘There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other’s home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.’ – Yitzhak Shamir

‘My survival case comes with a purpose and obligation, which is why I have launched Nadia’s Initiative, an organisation dedicated to helping women and children who have been victimised… My initiative is trying to get support needed to get Sinjar rebuilt.’ – Nadia Murad

‘As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.’ – Belle Boyd

‘I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that have far too long been in the darkness.’ – Amanda Gorman

‘The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.’ – Paul Valery

‘Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They’re the best girls in the world – they’re loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they’ll try to kill you.’ – John Cusack

‘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

‘In the Marine Corps, I was used to people doing what they said and saying what they mean. There was a higher purpose and calling in the Corps. Everyone works toward accomplishing something together, and there’s a common goal. In entertainment, the same isn’t always true. You’re in it for yourself in Hollywood.’ – Rob Riggle

‘All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.’ – William Henry Harrison

‘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

‘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

‘If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.’ – Jack Canfield

‘All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.’ – William Herschel

‘I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That’s my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.’ – Mavis Staples

‘The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.’ – Alexander Alekhine

‘The first years in Parliament I did nothing – nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.’ – William Wilberforce

‘The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.’ – Joseph Sobran

‘I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘I’ve always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.’ – Eve Arden

‘You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.’ – Peter Senge

‘Basketball as a sport has brought me happiness, joy, education and a real sense of purpose.’ – Patty Mills

‘I knew I had to just keep believing, never lose sight of my purpose. As a fighter, you need to be delusional in a way. It keeps you going.’ – Joseph Benavidez

‘I believe that every single person was brought into this world for a purpose and that we should never leave the world as we found it, we should always strive to make a positive change.’ – Zozibini Tunzi

‘I don’t try to make things mysterious on purpose; I just try to make them interesting.’ – Poppy

‘When I first made some comment when we launched that part of our purpose was to do stuff that has social ripples, lots of people said it was such a glib thing to say. I actually believe that.’ – David Droga

‘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

‘Every relationship that we have in our lives – our contact with each person, place, and event – serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.’ – Guy Finley

‘Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can’t be part of the same peaceful community of nations.’ – Wesley Clark

‘If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet.’ – John Ridley

‘Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn’t purpose; it’s a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘The scientific content of Genesis 1-11 holds special significance for me because it revolutionized my thinking and, thus, changed my life’s direction. Until I reached my late teens, my singular passion was science, astronomy in particular. My life’s purpose was to learn more about the universe; nothing beyond that really interested me.’ – Hugh Ross

‘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 satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!’ – Michael Flanders

‘Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.’ – Enrique Pena Nieto

‘The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.’ – Luvvie Ajayi

‘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.’ – Annie Besant

‘You know, 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

‘I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life.’ – Anne Graham Lotz

‘I know that I’m just a spirit. I’m just a soul living a human experience. You come here for a purpose. So, once you acknowledge that and acknowledge that God put you here for a reason, I feel like you gotta fulfill that as much as possible.’ – NLE Choppa

‘I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘The whole purpose of the Christian message is to confront the sinner’s sin so you can call the sinner to repentance and forgiveness. The sinner doesn’t like that.’ – John MacArthur

‘I wasn’t cast to play the part of a paranormal investigator, like maybe some other shows out there. I believe it, and it’s my passion, and this is what I’m here to do in this life. I love it. It was just meant to be for me. It’s what I’m doing. This was my purpose.’ – Zak Bagans

‘The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.’ – Stephen Covey

‘I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.’ – Howard Florey

‘To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.’ – Peter Nivio Zarlenga

‘For me, every project is different, and it serves a different purpose.’ – Burna Boy

‘If you’re alive, there’s a purpose for your life.’ – Rick Warren

‘We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.’ – Ozzie Smith

‘For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.’ – Pat Buchanan

‘There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things. It’s not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America.’ – Mike Huckabee

‘It’s not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it’s what they’re born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.’ – Jack Canfield

‘The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.’ – John Clayton

‘The second-grade films – where are they? No more are they made, and yet they were by far the best films for holding hands at, and wasn’t this always the main purpose of the cinema?’ – Patrick Kavanagh

‘The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘My job involves searching for ‘lost’ quotations – that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone’s mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.’ – Nigel Rees

‘A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.’ – Horace

‘Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.’ – Joseph Smith, Jr.

‘The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.’ – James Fenton

‘You must have an opinion about yourself, some kind of meaning to yourself, a purpose, if you are really going to learn anything or develop into that which you desire to be.’ – KRS-One

‘A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘My purpose is far greater than my pain.’ – Foxy Brown

‘We don’t need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.’ – Donella Meadows

‘People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘Activists create nonprofits for the sole purpose of suing their enemies, collecting a settlement check, and paying lawyers to find the next frivolous lawsuit.’ – Richard Grenell

‘What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn’t delineate between legal and illegal.’ – Rick Warren

‘The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.’ – John Mason Brown

‘I’ve always written plays for the purpose of getting something out of my system.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.’ – Karl Philipp Moritz

‘I’m really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I’m enjoying what I’m doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it’s great, you know.’ – Robbie Williams

‘Let every demonic network that has aligned itself against the purpose, against the calling of President Trump, let it be broken, let it be torn down in the name of Jesus.’ – Paula White

‘When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, ‘I’m your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.” – Marina Abramovic

‘The purpose of the mission must be thoroughly understood beforehand, and the men must be inspired with a sense of personal dedication that knows no limitations… In an age of high technology and Jedi Knights, we often overlook the need for personal involvement, but we do so at our own risk.’ – William H. McRaven

‘A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘The purpose of life is to love and be loved… what could possibly be more energizing than that?’ – Alan Mulally

‘A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don’t teach on purpose, but I’m glad that it happens sometimes.’ – Yuri Lowenthal

‘My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.’ – John Denver

‘Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.’ – T. C. Boyle

‘The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.’ – Leo Burnett

‘You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind?’ – Freeman Dyson

‘No further evidence is needed to show that ‘mental illness’ is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.’ – William O. Douglas

‘Journalism’s ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.’ – Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

‘The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.’ – Laurence Olivier

‘Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.’ – Ben Stein

‘I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.’ – Ashley Judd

‘You don’t think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can’t blame me for looking like this on purpose.’ – Anna Kournikova

‘The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.’ – Edward de Bono

‘Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘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

‘Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.’ – Alan Paton

‘There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.’ – Ari Fleischer

‘The purpose firm is equal to the deed.’ – Edward Young

‘A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.’ – Simone Weil

‘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

‘It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.’ – John Ruskin

‘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

‘What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.’ – James Thurber

‘Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government’s purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I’m going to take the country in an opposite direction than he’s taking it.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.’ – James Fenimore Cooper

‘The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.’ – Norman Mailer

‘The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.’ – Pablo Casals

‘It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.’ – Ovid

‘Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.’ – Robin G. Collingwood

‘September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.’ – Bill Frist

‘Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘America’s highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.’ – Christopher Dodd

‘It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, ‘My what a clever ad.’ It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, ‘I believe I’ll buy one when I’m shopping tomorrow’.’ – Morris Hite

‘Every novelist has a different purpose – and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.’ – Irwin Shaw

‘To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?’ – Anne Parillaud

‘I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.’ – Laurence Fishburne

‘You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it’s upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don’t like old women. We don’t honor age in our society, and we certainly don’t honor it in Hollywood.’ – Tyne Daly

‘Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.’ – Camilo Jose Cela

‘Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.’ – Jeane Dixon

‘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

‘My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they’ve cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.’ – Arthur Hertzberg

‘I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.’ – Barbara Hepworth

‘Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘All nature’s creatures join to express nature’s purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.’ – Graham Swift

‘Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.’ – Kenneth Burke

‘Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.’ – Jones Very

‘To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.’ – James Lane Allen

‘The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.’ – Arthur Young

‘Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.’ – Curtis Mayfield

‘People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I’m not proud of this, and I’m not trying to promote it.’ – Lisa Marie Presley

‘The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.’ – Liberty Hyde Bailey

‘I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.’ – Abraham Clark

‘Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘We’re all so mauled by information, but it’s recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you’ve got to get bizarre. This is an artist’s purpose – to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.’ – Jack Bowman

‘Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.’ – Stockwell Day

‘We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.’ – Arthur Middleton

‘Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.’ – Dave Pelzer

‘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

‘The purpose of the UN mechanism, this inspection mechanism, is not to engage in a cat and mouse game with Saddam Hussein and try to find weapons that the Iraqi government is working on concealing.’ – Douglas Feith

‘However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that’s its highest and best application.’ – William Weld

‘The choice that you, as a Soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose that all of us as humans have been given – to love unconditionally?’ – John Morton

‘But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I’m in jail, who looks after my children, who’s there for my wife?’ – Ernie Hudson

‘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

‘He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.’ – Gilbert Parker

‘The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.’ – Neal Boortz

‘The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.’ – Neal Boortz

‘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

‘You want to enjoy life, don’t you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that’s good isn’t it? That’s the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.’ – Yukihiro Matsumoto

‘The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.’ – Felix Klein

‘So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now.’ – Billy Sherwood

‘One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.’ – Bobby Scott

‘Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear – fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.’ – Arthur Levitt

‘Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.’ – Charles Edison

‘Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.’ – George Haven Putnam

‘The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I’m from. Well, I can’t write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.’ – Billy Ray Cyrus

‘Don’t organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.’ – Mark Hanna

‘During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.’ – Norm Dicks

‘We’re helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We’ve done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.’ – Jane D. Hull

‘A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians.’ – Joseph Lancaster

‘All my stories were usually titled, ‘White House Says,’ ‘President Bush Wants,’ and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.’ – Jeff Gannon

‘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

‘I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.’ – Neil Sheehan

‘I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God’s great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.’ – Donald Cargill

‘Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.’ – Knute Nelson

‘I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.’ – Muhammad Iqbal

‘Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.’ – Nelson A. Miles

‘But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of.’ – William Cavendish

‘And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they’re here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.’ – Alanis Morissette

‘If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.’ – Don Nickles

‘After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.’ – Charles Lawrence

‘Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.’ – Andy Goldsworthy

‘If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that’s not really how we picked the songs.’ – Mike Gordon

‘The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.’ – William Falconer

‘Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.’ – Mike Johanns

‘In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.’ – Robert W. Welch, Jr.

‘The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people – the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.’ – Vint Cerf

‘The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.’ – Robert Fortune

‘I would guess that the decision to create a small special purpose language or use an existing general purpose language is one of the toughest decisions that anyone facing the need for a new language must make.’ – Guido van Rossum

‘One answer is that the town’s elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.’ – Michael Kinsley

‘The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn’t about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a ‘public purpose.” – Michael Kinsley

‘The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.’ – Rand Beers

‘It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.’ – Alan Autry

‘I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.’ – Keith Miller

‘Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.’ – Robert Shea

‘So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better – it is how we work in our trade – is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.’ – Michael York

‘I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.’ – Luke Ford

‘A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don’t know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.’ – Tom Glazer

‘It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable – in this world, at least, if not the next.’ – James L. Buckley

‘It’s about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.’ – Ron Davies

‘It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God’s call to reveal to the world what God’s purpose is for humanity.’ – Rowan Williams

‘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 no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet’s metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.’ – William H. Hunt

‘I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.’ – Fay Wray

‘I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.’ – Sara Gilbert

‘For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.’ – Christopher Columbus

‘As for all those mistakes I make – they are on purpose – to teach you how to deal with them.’ – Donald Norman

‘You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.’ – James Levine

‘All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.’ – Jim Garrison

‘It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn’t work, then it would have been to no purpose.’ – Atom Egoyan

‘Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.’ – Alain Resnais

‘The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.’ – Vitruvius

‘The sensors have many potential practical uses – in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier’s lapel – and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.’ – Anne Campbell

‘So it allows me to travel, I’ll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I’ve done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.’ – Richard Dean Anderson

‘I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train.’ – Ronald Biggs

‘Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?’ – Henry Cabot Lodge

‘Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose – or, if there are several, at least one of them – is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.’ – Benjamin Hoff

‘What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.’ – Dee Hock

‘The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.’ – Ernst Mach

‘The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.’ – Terrence Howard

‘When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.’ – Shoeless Joe Jackson

‘In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.’ – Sydney Brenner

‘When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.’ – Warren Christopher

‘All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.’ – Ferdinand Mount

‘As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man’s activity or interests.’ – Lester B. Pearson

‘One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.’ – Nassau William Senior

‘Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.’ – Scott Wolf

‘If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we’re man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘And that’s why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We’ve seen them in a million movies and it’s too much like cranking the tears out. I didn’t want that scene.’ – Christine Lahti

‘I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.’ – Henry Laurens

‘The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.’ – William Irwin Thompson

‘Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.’ – William Irwin Thompson

‘The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.’ – Louis Leakey

‘I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God’s purpose and God’s intent.’ – Theodore Bikel

‘And really the purpose of art – for me, fiction – is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.’ – Jerzy Kosinski

‘Original Monkees’ songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.’ – Peter Tork

‘If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.’ – William Bartram

‘I’m in the music business for one purpose – to make money.’ – Nat King Cole

‘Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.’ – Howard Staunton

‘Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.’ – Jacques Lacan

‘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

‘With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.’ – Samuel E. Morison

‘Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.’ – Joshua Reynolds

‘Everything I’ve always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won’t admit that, but I do. I just want to make love.’ – Rick Fox

‘Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.’ – Bob Filner

‘It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.’ – Clifford D. Simak

‘When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.’ – Clifford D. Simak

‘How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.’ – Simon Greenleaf

‘The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.’ – Miroslav Vitous

‘In this case we’re building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.’ – Bruce Nauman

‘The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.’ – Juan Goytisolo

‘Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.’ – Adam Weishaupt

‘In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.’ – Kenzaburo Oe

‘It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.’ – Emanuel Celler

‘The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.’ – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

‘Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.’ – Mark Knopfler

‘The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.’ – Louis Stokes

‘The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.’ – Joan Blades

‘When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.’ – Herbert Croly

‘Keep it in tune with the times, but don’t write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you’re doing it strictly to make money, you’re crazy. There are easier ways to make money.’ – Dorothy Fields

‘My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms.’ – Lisa Whelchel

‘The whole purpose was to say that it doesn’t have to be a zero sum. It’s not the environment or jobs. You can have both. You can help the auto industry achieve that if you have investment in plants.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.’ – Charlene Tilton

‘So Ham’s wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.’ – Warren Jeffs

‘It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.’ – Matthew Ashford

‘Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn’t going to settle.’ – Boris Kodjoe

‘I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it’s rewarding, ultimately.’ – Brendan Fraser

‘By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.’ – Steven Chu

‘If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it’s not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That’s how I got sponsored.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.’ – Robert Walpole

‘The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.’ – Robert Toombs

‘Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.’ – Mel Torme

‘The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character – that is the purpose of films and theatre.’ – Isabelle Huppert

‘I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.’ – Jeanette Winterson

‘I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co’operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.’ – Abraham Whipple

‘With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I’m going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.’ – Marc Wallice

‘Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don’t feel I’ve been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There’s no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.’ – Scott Stapp

‘Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.’ – Pia Zadora

‘Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.’ – Kelly Miller

‘He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.’ – Kel Mitchell

‘What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.’ – Peter Shaffer

‘The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.’ – Sidney Sheldon

‘It’s never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.’ – Juliette Binoche

‘In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.’ – Morarji Desai

‘I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.’ – John Kricfalusi

‘Sex appeal is not on purpose.’ – Heather Locklear

‘I never search for a reason why – I have faith in the Lord’s purpose.’ – Willie Stargell

‘In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘My father’s generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.’ – Paul Tsongas

‘I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don’t live as if they deny it.’ – Joshua Lederberg

‘I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I’d get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I’d back up and get it together again.’ – Kathy Mattea

‘Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.’ – Elton Gallegly

‘The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.’ – Patricia Hewitt

‘The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.’ – Ira Glass

‘Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.’ – Adolf Hitler

‘America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.’ – David Brainerd

‘An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.’ – A. P. Herbert

‘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

‘Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.’ – Randall Terry

‘Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.’ – Franz Grillparzer

‘The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.’ – Peter McWilliams

‘Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.’ – Chinua Achebe

‘To make a difference is just… I think… the purpose of what life is.’ – Anastacia

‘It’s a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.’ – Clarence Clemons

‘Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.’ – John Stossel

‘I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don’t need a national ID card.’ – Ron Paul

‘The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.’ – Garet Garrett

‘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

‘If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.’ – Catherine Drinker Bowen

‘The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.’ – A. P. Herbert

‘Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.’ – George Will

‘Don’t confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.’ – Martin H. Fischer

‘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?’ – Adlai Stevenson II

‘I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.’ – A. R. Ammons

‘Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.’ – Auberon Waugh

‘To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I’m quite the dork, I’d rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn’t get you a girl, does it?’ – Wentworth Miller

‘I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.’ – Megan Fox

‘The danger of what’s happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.’ – Tom Coburn

‘But what we’re determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.’ – Timothy Geithner

‘Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.’ – Ed Miliband

‘I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.’ – Betty Buckley

‘I am not involved in any ‘issues’ because it’s too sensitive for me – or my wife – to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.’ – Guy Ritchie

‘Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people.’ – Allen West

‘We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘Show your bluebell passion with every step you take. Infuse your corporeal mind, body and spirit with atomic sense of urgency, purpose and apple juice.’ – Isabel Yosito

‘We have to remember we’re in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that’s why it’s so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.’ – Stephen Harper

‘Today’s preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science – to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift’s kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.’ – Robert Lanza

‘But we have to ask ourselves, what’s the purpose of the stock market? It’s supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It’s lost that purpose.’ – Mark Cuban

‘But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.’ – Marco Rubio

‘As far as I’m concerned, I’m now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I’m not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O’Connor.’ – Sinead O’Connor

‘I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.’ – Brandy Norwood

‘You cannot mistake Bush’s clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren’t just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.’ – Eric Liu

‘Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.’ – Eric Liu

‘People have been to jail when they’re innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.’ – John Higgins

‘Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.’ – John Higgins

‘I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.’ – Maurice Sendak

‘I’ve always lived my gymnastics career with a lot of passion and a lot of purpose.’ – Kyle Shewfelt

‘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

‘Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it’s so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn’t even in it for the – you know, the prize. I was, like, ‘Hey, man, I’m going to sing.” – Fantasia Barrino

‘George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.’ – Josh Brolin

‘My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?’ – Emir Kusturica

‘It’s time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.’ – Ari Fleischer

‘Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.’ – Azar Nafisi

‘We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It’s time now.’ – Cass Sunstein

‘To finalize, the purpose of an election is to hear the will of the people, not to fabricate votes.’ – Lincoln Diaz-Balart

‘The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it’s not about who you represent, I think you’ve sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.’ – Andy Stern

‘The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It’s easy for us to make the argument that God’s purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.’ – Walter Russell Mead

‘People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.’ – Mitt Romney

‘The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.’ – Mitt Romney

‘It’s not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren’t the purpose of all this. No actor’s going to say, ‘I don’t want to be famous.’ But the main purpose for doing what I’m doing is the passion in the work.’ – Christopher Lambert

‘Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.’ – Shigeru Miyamoto

‘I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.’ – Jeremy Renner

‘I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It’s not about a production number, it’s about a meaningful moment between two people that’s witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.’ – Jane Seymour

‘We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘One’s teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.’ – Jeremy Paxman

‘And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that’s over my head, when it’s gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone’s prayers. But I also believe that we’re here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.’ – Ann Romney

‘Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.’ – Mitch Daniels

‘The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘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

‘One of the things I realized… is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.’ – Andrew Mason

‘If you can take my tax money and assure me that it’ll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I’m not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn’t.’ – Bill Bennett

‘You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don’t have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.’ – Chris Hughes

‘I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we’re all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘I’ve moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don’t move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I’m not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.’ – Ellen DeGeneres

‘For some individuals – some soldiers, some contractors – combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.’ – Kathryn Bigelow

‘If there’s one thing that I’ve done on purpose it’s to take whatever job, so long as it’s interesting and challenging, whether it’s theatre, radio, TV or film.’ – Laura Linney

‘You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.’ – Joaquin Phoenix

‘It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.’ – Paul Wolfowitz

‘A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that’s it.’ – Jim Lehrer

‘I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.’ – William Shatner

‘We have these rules, the ‘hero rules.’ Like, a hero doesn’t slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero’s always a gentleman.’ – John Singleton

‘Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.’ – Grace Slick

‘My belief is that the purpose of economic life is to meet the social needs of people.’ – Maurice Strong

‘Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘I think punditry serves no purpose.’ – Nate Silver

‘Right after ‘Raymond’ I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don’t like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. ‘What is my purpose? Who am I?’ I had a big identity crisis.’ – Ray Romano

‘Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.’ – James Buchan

‘At the end of the day, that’s our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.’ – Nikki Reed

‘With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn’t just about being noticed, you know?’ – Mos Def

‘All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That’s why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.’ – Martha Beck

‘When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this system is so we can use our computers and have freedom, thus if you use some other free system instead but you have freedom, then it’s a success. It’s not popularity for our code but it’s success for our goal.’ – Richard Stallman

‘I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I’m not a believer in laissez-faire.’ – Vince Cable

‘What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.’ – Robert Ballard

‘It’s nice to feel that you have a purpose.’ – Norman Schwarzkopf

‘The purpose of a business is to create customers.’ – Sam Wyly

‘As far as I’m concerned, I’m now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.’ – Sinead O’Connor

‘A few years ago you couldn’t go from TV to film. It was like a ‘no no’ but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there’s not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you’re really standing in the wisdom of God.’ – Derek Luke

‘But I don’t want to be out there anymore; I don’t want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.’ – Toni Braxton

‘I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it’s fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.’ – Eleanor Mondale

‘The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that’s not the sole purpose of why I make music.’ – Macklemore

‘For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.’ – Thomas Frank

‘The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood – if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.’ – Berry Gordy

‘If you’re trying to do multiple agendas, you’ll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.’ – Andrew Stanton

‘If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?’ – Ben Carson

‘The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I’ve always felt like this could be better.’ – Jonathan Safran Foer

‘Often, I’ll read a script and the female character’s an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character’s narrative and it just isn’t fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.’ – Andrea Riseborough

‘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

‘I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I’m thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we’re also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.’ – Shay Mitchell

‘Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music – it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that’s what music is about.’ – Colbie Caillat

‘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

‘The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.’ – Marc Ostrofsky

‘Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘Today’s consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies – but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to marry profit and purpose. The reason brands participate is that such outreach earns those companies social currency enabling them to start or participate in conversations that connect them to consumers in meaningful ways.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?’ – Susan Orlean

‘My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what’s the purpose of reading, and maybe that it’s not that cool to hate something just because it’s popular.’ – Josh Radnor

‘I wanted to be a star – with a purpose.’ – Laurieann Gibson

‘Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in ‘Oliver Twist’ that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.’ – Henning Mankell

‘No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don’t see the point in doing that.’ – Elizabeth Kostova

‘I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don’t know why. It’s not something conscious or that I’m doing on purpose.’ – Gaspard Ulliel

‘I always say that the characters in Jane Austen’s original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what’s going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.’ – Seth Grahame-Smith

‘It’s a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.’ – Irvin Kershner

‘What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.’ – Barry Diller

‘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

‘Well, no American wants to in any way hurt our capabilities to national defense, but that doesn’t mean an unlimited amount of money, and a blank check for anything they want at any time, for any purpose. Not at all.’ – Chuck Hagel

‘Think about how much it costs to incarcerate someone. Do we want them just sitting in prison, lifting weights, becoming violent and thinking about the next crime? Or do we want them having a little purpose in life and learning a skill?’ – John Ensign

‘You have safety and soundness as primary purpose of the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the other agencies which control banking regulation.’ – Judd Gregg

‘Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.’ – Tom Shadyac

‘No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.’ – Mitchell Zuckoff

‘What I don’t like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there’s no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don’t want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here’s the epiphany scene and then the movie’s over.’ – Paul Feig

‘The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.’ – Pete Sessions

‘The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.’ – Gary Bauer

‘The Grateful Dead, they’re my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.’ – Bill Walton

‘I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don’t feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it’s such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It’s my identity, it’s everything. And it’s given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose – I can’t imagine my life without it.’ – Emmylou Harris

‘I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today’s world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.’ – Vicente Fox

‘Carole King’s second album, ‘Tapestry,’ has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.’ – Jon Landau

‘I don’t know if there’s an actors’ slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a conflict of interest for the people they rep to play because I could hit a pop-up and they’d have to drop it on purpose.’ – Miles Teller

‘It was 1999, and we were building a way for college kids to create online profiles for the purpose of sharing… with employers. Oops. I vividly remember the moment I realized my company was going to fail. My co-founder and I were at our wits’ end. By 2001, the dot-com bubble had burst, and we had spent all our money.’ – Eric Ries

‘On stage, you can use your emotions. It’s the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.’ – Florence Welch

‘The night before, go over your schedule and see what you’re going to do and what the purpose of what you’re doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.’ – Robert Pozen

‘We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.’ – Natalia Vodianova

‘I believe that it is higher education’s purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.’ – Gordon Gee

‘I’m not someone who can lie on a beach and do nothing. I am not sure what you are supposed to do, so I get bored. I prefer to have a purpose, such as going to Alaska to see orca whales.’ – Miranda Richardson

‘All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.’ – Guy Finley

‘What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering the treasures waiting there is the same as fulfilling our purpose for being?’ – Guy Finley

‘I’m of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.’ – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

‘I was trying to learn how to deal with the freedom that I had away from home for the first time. ‘Long Black Train,’ the song and the album, are very special to me. It was just one of those things that I felt like God gave to me for a purpose, and I’ve been out here promoting that purpose.’ – Josh Turner

‘Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.’ – Robert Winston

‘Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator’s plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.’ – Kenneth R. Miller

‘The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.’ – Mike White

‘I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question ‘why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?” – Peter Greenaway

‘Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good.’ – Hilary Mantel

‘Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it’s not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.’ – Hilary Mantel

‘Whether it’s writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don’t ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.’ – Denis O’Hare

‘It feels good to know you contributed positively to another’s life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.’ – Joy Bryant

‘When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we’re more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.’ – Kris Carr

‘In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.’ – Adam Gopnik

‘Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I’m working with other people, derailing what they’re trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.’ – Mark Leyner

‘I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.’ – Paula Fox

‘In ‘The Plato Papers’ I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there’s a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.’ – Peter Ackroyd

‘My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated – every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.’ – Mark Helprin

‘Every proposal I’m making, every idea I’m advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.’ – Dick Gephardt

‘That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.’ – Joe Klein

‘When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!’ – Kent Conrad

‘What is the purpose of public service? It’s to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.’ – Olympia Snowe

‘We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society.’ – Josh Mandel

‘Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I’m not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome.’ – Pete Hegseth

‘In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It’s not blind violence. It’s with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.’ – John Reid

‘There’s a destiny for everybody. The world is set up – as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic – but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.’ – James Redfield

‘I feel that there’s a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.’ – Jay McInerney

‘The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss

‘For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss

‘Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.’ – Lawrence M. Krauss

‘If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don’t see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that’s not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.’ – Lee Strobel

‘When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.’ – Ted Dekker

‘One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.’ – Sam Harris

‘Every character is asking: ‘What’s my place? Why am I here? I don’t want the answer to be ‘Just because.’ You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.’ – Sharon Creech

‘If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.’ – Gary Hamel

‘An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.’ – Gary Hamel

‘If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it’s only a click away.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.’ – Vinod Khosla

‘Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.’ – Matt Taibbi

‘I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents’ friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.’ – Spencer Johnson

‘The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.’ – Henepola Gunaratana

‘All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.’ – Stacy London

‘When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission. In no way do I believe this means I endorse every single aspect of that organization. That may be naive, and you may disagree, but it is my sincere belief.’ – Blake Mycoskie

‘It’s all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life’s goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose – family, career – to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.’ – Abigail Spencer

‘The whole point of all of this – why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do – is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.’ – Yehuda Berg

‘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

‘We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn’t to be rejected. My purpose isn’t to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.’ – Nate Parker

‘They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That’s because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.’ – Brian Grazer

‘In my own work, I’d say I’m a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don’t study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that’s a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program – that’s a major part of the study.’ – Philip Johnson

‘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

‘If you do a full-on workout and then eat McDonald’s or Wendy’s, you’re defeating the purpose. If you put good things into your body while working out, you’ll see results.’ – Matt Kemp

‘It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.’ – Vanilla Ice

‘The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.’ – Bill Drayton

‘I don’t want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It’s a life with a purpose.’ – Charlene, Princess of Monaco

‘The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you’ve saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.’ – Derek Sivers

‘It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, ‘I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.” – Bruce Feiler

‘Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you’re singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.’ – Naturi Naughton

‘If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that’s pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.’ – Steve Gleason

‘The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.’ – Ricardo Semler

‘The purpose of work is to make the worker – whether a working stiff or a CEO – feel good about life.’ – Ricardo Semler