Quotes About Purpose

Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do - some... don't ever want to.

The man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth, which every day increases, breathes, indeed, like the bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to live.

Lose your dream, you lose your mind.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination.

But my dreams, they aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be

Breath is God's gift. Life is our reward. The rest is up to us.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.

Rüya, ÅŸakalar?n?n kalitesi hakk?nda tasalanmaz. Ä°yi espriler yapmak derdinde deÄŸildir; çünkü zaten herhangi bir ÅŸey yapmak istememektedir. Rüya yönelimsizdir; çünkü kendisi yönelimdir; bu nedenle rüyalar?n isabetli ya da isabetsiz olmas? söz konusu deÄŸildir.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

What was the use of propriety when it kept one from getting things done?

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

it is widely believed that the purpose of art is to challenge, to question, to transgress, never to celebrate, to harmonise, to console, to give meaning.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

Professionals in a campaign are servants; they can tell him only how to do something once he tells them what it is he wants to do.

But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.

He had always acted as if men were masters of forces, as if all things were possible for men determined in purpose and clear in thought—even the Presidency. This perhaps is what he had best learned in 1960—even though he called his own victory a "miracle." This was what he would have to cherish alone in the White House, on which an impatient world waited for miracles.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking

The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them…. If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.