Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Veronica Roth

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

Robert Foster Bennett

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

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.

Walt Whitman

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

Saul Alinsky

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

Roger Scruton

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.

Samuel Johnson

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

Samuel Johnson

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

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.

Tori Kelly

Everyone in life has a purpose, and nobody's purpose is better than anyone else's

Vince Staples

Everyone serves a purpose.

Samuel Johnson

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Will Smith

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

Warren Brown

The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents.

Warren Buffett

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

Wayne Dyer

Stop looking for your purpose. BE it!

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

Rudolf Steiner

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

Wayne Dyer

Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

Wayne Dyer

Everything in the universe has a purpose

Vladimir Putin

I know very well about the necessary level of reserves of the Central Bank as well as the purpose.

Stella Benson

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Thomas Hobbes

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

Thomas Goodwin

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

Gordon Brown

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

Jerry Falwell

Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose,

Jeff Galloway

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.