Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Batterson

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Mitt Romney

Live for a purpose greater than yourself.

Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

Oprah Winfrey

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

Oprah Winfrey

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

Margaret Cho

Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.

Oscar Wilde

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Larry Wall

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

Larry Wall

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Ken Kesey

Living is the purpose of life, And meaning can be found therein. I finds thou. Thou becomes it. And it begins again.

Ken Calvert

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

Ken Blanchard

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

Sandy Alderson

Absolutely, that's been a priority. That's been a purpose from the start.

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.

Tom DeLonge

I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.

Sinead O'Connor

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

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

John Templeton

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

Nikita Khrushchev

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

Nick Vujicic

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

Nat King Cole

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Mignon McLaughlin

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

Mark Shields

When you have got military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, they're intended for one purpose. And that is to inflict as much damage on human beings in as short as time as possible.

Paula Fox

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

Pharrell Williams

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

Peter Drucker

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

Peter Drucker

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Mavis Staples

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.