Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tom Robbins

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

Thomas Merton

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

Tony Dungy

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

Stephen Harper

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.

Steven Pinker

What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.

T. D. Jakes

Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.

T. D. Jakes

The most dangerous thing in the world is to have no purpose.

T. D. Jakes

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.

Rainbow Rowell

Love. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.

Les Brown

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

George Washington

used solely for the purpose of encouraging American genius.

Michael Dowd

We allege the scheme was for the purpose of evading the statutes of limitations.

These airstrikes have one purpose alone, and that is to stop the genocide.

Richard Dawkins

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

Rick Warren

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

Rick Warren

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.

Rick Warren

You must begin with God.

Rick Warren

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with productivity.

Rick Warren

There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

Rick Warren

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

Rick Warren

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

Rick Warren

After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.

Rick Warren

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Rick Warren

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 closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

Rick Warren

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

Rick Warren

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

Rick Warren

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days...

Rick Warren

You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

Ozzie Smith

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.