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Quotes About Purpose

The purpose creates the machine.
~ Arthur Young
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
~ Charles Babbage
The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
~ Phil Jackson
An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
~ A. P. Herbert
He felt like the invisible boy. When he got to be part of the mystery Men he felt like he had a purpose.
~ Kel Mitchell
It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
~ John Quincy Adams
I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
~ Lisa Marie Presley
Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
~ Victoria Osteen
Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.
~ Bryant H. McGill
You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.
~ Ginni Rometty
It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.
~ Louis Farrakhan
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
~ Robert Bork
If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
~ Ziggy Marley
I think that I have a seriousness of purpose, a lot of support, and a healthy amount of good fortune.
~ Sean Astin
If you do something enough with purpose long enough, you're eventually going to get really good at it.
~ Adam Vinatieri
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My purpose will not be denied.
~ Teddy Bridgewater
The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everybody has a purpose.
~ Dolly Parton
It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world. That's their motive, that's their passion... I think that's what makes your life meaningful, that's what fills your own heart and that's what gives you purpose.
~ Maria Shriver