Famous Quotes & Sayings

G. H. Hardy

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Neale Donald Walsch

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

Morihei Ueshiba

To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido

Jonathan Stroud

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

Jonathan Tropper

The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are movies where voiceover works really well because it does something more than exposition; it actually becomes a tonal element of the movie.

John Cage

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

John C. Maxwell

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

Elmore Leonard

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

Hermann Hesse

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

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.

Khalil Gibran

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Napoleon Hill

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin.

Napoleon Hill

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Napoleon Hill

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

Og Mandino

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Os Guinness

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Octavia Butler

Consider We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.

Octavio Paz

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

Mark Zuckerberg

If you actually do something you love it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.

Ted Nelson

The purpose of computers is human freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

John C. Maxwell

We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

Let each moment be guided by positive purpose. And let your whole life express the beauty of who you truly are.

Sergei Prokofiev

I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.