Quotes About Purpose

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place, The stars my destination.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Why is life? Don't ask about it. Live it.

I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.

Confession also means confessing to an assignment. "Who are you?" The austere figure of John the Baptist stands there and says: "I am the one crying in the wilderness." Confession means proclaiming, praising and really spreading the word.

God has our best interests at heart and wants to work on us in order to work through us.

As a leader, you need to keep the main thing—the mission

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

I have never used my office for anything other than the purpose in which I hold it - to represent the people who sent me to Washington.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose.

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.

I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.

I feel anything done half heartedly is a waste.