Quotes About Purpose

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change.

We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus.

I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

My goals as governor are to help all North Carolinians be better educated, healthier and have more money in their pockets so that they can live more abundant, purposeful lives.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

Let anti-slavery charity boxes stand uppermost among those for missionary, tract and educational purposes. On this subject, Christians have been asleep; let them shake off their slumbers and arm for the holy contest.

I would like my celebrity to serve charity purposes, and to help people less well off.

I feel that we all have missions and purposes in life. Part of mine is allowing women to feel beautiful in whatever they put on - or don't put on.

People craved orientation. It was a very basic primal need. So we could create a boundary that served lots of functional purposes and especially create boundaries that people would camp along.

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

I think there's a lot of moms who just aren't feeling protected. And that's one of the prime purposes of the federal government, is the security of our nation.

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.

I have never really thought that the Left was much in 'array' as far as political purposes were concerned.

God will use us for his purposes, but it takes a certain kind of listening.

I've never, ever taken a role for money purposes or for some bizarre notion of what may be the kind of career move that would open things up for me. If I don't believe in it, I can't do it because I won't be good in it if I don't believe in it.