Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

David Kim

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

David Kim

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

David Graeber

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Dave Barry

Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

Mark Cuban

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.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

Bo Burnham

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

Bertrand Russell

The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.

Beth Moore

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

Beth Moore

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Benjamin Hoff

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.

Bob Marley

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

Anton Chekhov

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Brandi Carlile

The purpose of it all is love.

Brandi Carlile

There is a creator and a redeemer, and the purpose of it all is love.

Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Brian Tracy

The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Bill Hybels

God made you on purpose, for a purpose

Dean Koontz

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Elizabeth Holmes

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that,

Ashleigh Brilliant

How can I fail when I have no purpose?

Ben Shneiderman

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

Barbara Kingsolver

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Bruce Springsteen

We're here tonight with a mission, we're here tonight with a purpose,

Aristotle

Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

Aristotle

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Aristotle

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose