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Quotes About Purpose

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.
~ Hope Solo
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
~ Oscar Wilde
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.
~ Theophile Gautier
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
~ William Hazlitt
The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.
~ Gary Zukav
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.
~ Robert Breault
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.
~ Paola Antonelli
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
~ Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
~ Jack London
I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.
~ Julius Sumner Miller
We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.
~ Alan Chadwick
Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feeling tired of your four walls?Jesus commanded us to "GO", not sit! (Mark 16:15) Just saying!
~ John M Sheehan
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.
~ Barack Obama
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
~ Francis Hutcheson
The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.
~ Julianna Margulies
Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place.
~ David Suzuki
Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.
~ Jordan Belfort
We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
~ Lenny Kravitz