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Quotes About Purpose

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
~ Immanuel Kant
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
My nature is to provoke, that's true. I can't help myself. But it's always with good intentions.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.
~ Aristotle
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
~ Ricardo Semler
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
~ Archibald Alexander
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
~ Maimonides
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.
~ David F. Wells
There are no accidents in Nature.
~ John Muir
Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
~ Napoleon Hill
The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.
~ Anthony D. Williams
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
~ Edwin Booth
Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
~ Arie de Geus
Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
~ Joseph Addison
A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.
~ William Shakespeare
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
~ Martha Beck
Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
~ Aristotle
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
~ Aristotle
You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.
~ Les Brown
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson