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Quotes About Purpose

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.
~ Wayne Dyer
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
~ Richard Dawkins
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.
~ Ossian Everett Mills
Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
~ Shane Claiborne
Good design means as little design as possible.
~ Dieter Rams
Only Christianity and its teachings can explain the purpose and meaning of this world- and also gives the basis for right and wrong, good and evil, etc.
~ Ken Ham
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
~ Vaclav Havel
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
~ Alan Cohen
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
~ Hari Kunzru
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
~ Clive James
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
~ Dieter Rams
The main purpose of production is to manufacture items of good quality for daily use in abundant supply, thereby enhancing and improving the life for everyone and it is this goal that I am dedicated.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Are you planning to follow a career in Magical Law, Miss Granger?" asked Scrimgeour. "No, I'm not," retorted Hermione. "I'm hoping to do some good in the world!
~ J. K. Rowling
Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.
~ Marsilio Ficino
We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.
~ Paul Washer
Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
~ Paul Samuelson
A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.
~ Jack Ma
Design means being good, not just looking good.
~ Clement Mok
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
~ Annie Leibovitz
Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.
~ Sister Parish
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
~ Andrew Young