Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Sendak

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Maurice Sendak

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

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.

Theodore Roosevelt

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.

Theodore Bikel

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

Theodor Adorno

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

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

Lance Berkman

The only way that we can truly have a purpose and an enriching life experience is to do all things in Christ and through the power of Christ. What happens when we're all about doing good works and we're doing that outside of the power of Christ is that we end up getting the glory and the whole point of this deal is that God gets the glory. That verse beautifully illustrates that point.

John Stuart Mill

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

Kyle MacLachlan

I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.

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.

Jon Krakauer

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily.

Jon Campbell

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

Jojo Moyes

We are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

John Brown

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

George Washington

used solely for the purpose of encouraging American genius.

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.

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.

Stefan Molyneux

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

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.

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.