Quotes About Purpose

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.

As I'm so often reminded what a priceless gift my life is, I ache with everything in me to make it count, so that when I finally cross the finish line, I'll hear the words, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.

Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back

We are not soul freelancers, but beings created to dance in the arms of the Trinity.

Disciplines done for the wrong reasons actually sabotage transformation and numb us toward God and the truth. When we use spiritual practices to gain secondary things like spiritual cachet, success, approval and respect, we rob the discipline of its God-given grace.

Create your own destiny!

one must judge each situation and each action, not according to its "comfortableness" but according to whether or not it is likely to bring one nearer to that goal.

Waiting for salvation is, therefore, not a passive state of being; it is rather the active doing of every person whose every thought and deed can contribute to the redemption of the universe.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Your days are short here this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Una alianza será tanto más fuerte cuanto mayor sea la expectativa de las partes contrayentes por lograr finalidades tangibles y de carácter expansivo.

Few teachers realize that the purpose of teaching history is not the memorizing of certain dates and facts that the student is not interested in knowing: the exact date of a battle, or the birthday of some marshal or other... To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results that appear to us as historical events.

Accordingly I had no feelings of antipathy towards the actual policy of the Social Democrats. That its avowed purpose was to raise the level of the working classes - which in my ignorance I then foolishly believed - was a further reason why I should speak in favor of Social Democracy rather than against it.

The state is a community of living beings who have kindred physical and spiritual natures. It's organized for the purpose of assuring the preservation of their own kind, and to help towards fulfilling those ends assigned by providence. Therin, and therein alone, lay the purpose and meaning of a state.

Esasen devletin otoritesi bir gaye olamaz. Çünkü devlet otoritesi bir gaye kabul edilirse, istibdad? kutsal saymak gerekir.

Ä°nsanlar?n hayatlar?n?n en büyük gayesi bir devletin devam?n? teminden ibaret deÄŸildir. Amaç ?rklar?n bekas?d?r.

Lo Stato non è un'associazione di contraenti economici, in uno spazio vitale determinato per perseguire i propri scopi economici ma è piuttosto l'organizzazione di una comunità di esseri fisicamente e spiritualmente solidali, per rendere possibile la conservazione della specie e il raggiungimento dei suoi scopi di esistenza. L'Economia è solo uno dei tanti mezzi che servono al raggiungimento di quella meta

Yahudi'nin gerçek gayesi hiçbir zaman yaz?n?n tamam?nda aranmamal?d?r. Yahudi gayesini sat?rlar?n aras?nda gizler.

Quando dico noi, intendo parlare di quelle centinaia di migliaia che hanno le nostre stesse aspirazioni