Quotes About Purpose

Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

In short, it was not commonly understood at that time that ideals didn't simply descend from heaven, that they actually came from somewhere and that they served a purpose. That purpose, as I would then explain, was often a financial one, namely to increase the profits of those advertisers whose ad dollars actually drove the media that, in turn, created the ideals. The ideal, I argued, also served a political end.

Goals are dreams with a deadline.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love. Napoleon Hill

the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan. And A man whose mind is filled with fear not only destroys his own chances of intelligent action, but he transmits these destructive vibrations to the minds of all who come in contact with him, and destroys, also, their chances.

A definite purpose, backed by absolute faith, is a form of wisdom and wisdom in action produces positive results.

failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one's major purpose in life.

First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and continuous action toward its attainment.

The object of your definite chief aim should become your hobby. You should ride this hobby continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.

Thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire...

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly. That is the major reason why they are leaders. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

First. I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success, for how may a man be sure that he has attained success unless he has established in his mind some definite object that he wishes?

One's dominating desires can be crystallized into their physical equivalents through definiteness of purpose backed by definiteness of plans with the aid of rhythm and time

Anyone who submits to annoyance by things he does not want is not definite. He is a drifter.

Children are sent to school to make credits and to learn how to memorize, not to learn what they want of life.

Truly, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

When you begin to THINK AND GROW RICH, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.