Purpose Quotes - Page 23

• You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Thinking, Mind

  Song: Say It Isn't True, 1983

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• As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

  Thomas Guthrie

  Art, Cutting, Views

  "Man and the Gospel".

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• Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Wimps, Saving

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• All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Self, People

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• His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Angel, Fasting, Broke

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.16, Charisma Media

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• When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

  Hal Turner

  Easter, Dad, Coffee

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• You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

  Ozzie Smith

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• Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

  Lee Strasberg

  Theatre, Acting

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• When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Perseverance, Determination, Thinking

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• Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence.

  Thomas Sprat

  Mean, Heart, Science

  Thomas Sprat (1722). “The History of the Royal Society of London: For the Improving of Natural Knowledge”, p.392

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• A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Progress, Clear

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• My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Creating, Goes On

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• A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted; because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Character, Looks, Way

  Charles Horton Cooley, Hans-Joachim Schubert (1998). “On Self and Social Organization”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Men, Imagination

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• The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.121, I.B.Tauris

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• Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

  Dawna Markova

  Inspirational, Positive, Giving

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Confused, World

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.69, Souvenir Press

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• Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

  John F. Kerry

  Heart, America, Challenges

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites the imagination and chlalenges people to work for something they do not yet know how to do.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Dream, People, Imagination

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• Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life's purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging. Likewise with business and profit.

  Kenneth Mason

  Business, Challenges, Requirements

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• Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Exercise

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• Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

  Richard Bach

  Fighting, Ideas, Perfection

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

  Chester Himes

  Life, Death, Knowledge

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