Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

John Owen

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

John Milton

Execute their airy purposes.

Norman Cousins

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

Eckhart Tolle

Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success.

Benjamin Franklin

The Master-piece of Man, is to live to the purpose

Jon Miller

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

L. Ron Hubbard

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life-have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living. And that's all there is to it. I've now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it.

L. Ron Hubbard

The highest purpose in this universe is the creation of an effect.

Terry Brooks

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.

Tom Rath

Make work a purpose, not just a place.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Richard Branson

Of course, a lot of businesses want to reach students, so I funded the magazine by selling advertising. I sold something like $8,000 worth of advertising for the first edition, and that was in 1966. I printed up 50,000 copies, and I didn't even have to charge for them on the newsstand because my costs were already covered.

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 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.

Robert Mueller

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

Walter Lippmann

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Voltaire

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Voltaire

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

William Irwin Thompson

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Walter Ulbricht

Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

Walter Russell

I will keep my body charged with energy for fulfillment of my purpose, in accord with that which is commanded of me...

William Kingdon Clifford

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Winston Churchill

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Saint Augustine

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Winston Churchill

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

William H. Seward

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.