Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Andreessen

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.

Tony Robbins

Activity without purpose is the drain of your life

Tom Rath

Make work a purpose, not just a place.

Karl Lagerfeld

The purpose of life is life.

June Jordan

Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

Joyce Meyer

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

Ozzie Smith

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Ovid

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

Peter Greenaway

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

Henri Poincare

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.

Henry Ford

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

Helen Mirren

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

John Maynard Keynes

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Peace Pilgrim

A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.

Peace Pilgrim

When societies are out of harmony, problems develop within the society - collective problems. Their purpose is to push the whole society toward harmony.

Paula Patton

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me.

Peter Kreeft

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

Thomas Jefferson

To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

Tacitus

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Rollo May

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Robert Mueller

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

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

Rita Mae Brown

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Thornton Wilder

A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

Thomas Huxley

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

Thomas S. Monson

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Roger Penrose

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

Rush Limbaugh

In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.

Thomas Merton

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.