Purpose Quotes - Page 38

• We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Passion, Bodybuilding

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• [I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still being issued in West Africa and why American military forces are being deployed there without a workable plan or intelligible purpose, why CDC spending priorities are so skewed and CDC management so weak, and why here at home routine police powers aren't being used and routine public health measures aren't being implemented.

  William Kristol

  Military, Home, Priorities

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• It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Men, Want

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• By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving do not see the manifestation of his power, he brought the Puritans from the old world to New England, the Dutch to New York, the English Cavaliers to Virginia and the French to New Orleans, a combination of races which, paradoxical as it may appear, was just calculated to give us the composite America who made the United States of America what it is, the greatest nation of the world today.

  Anthony W. Ivins

  New York, Mean, Simple

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• The Church has always advised against birth control and that is the only position the Church can take in view of our beliefs with respect to the eternity of the marriage covenant and the purpose of this divine relationship.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Views, Church, Birth Control

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• True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through worldwide birth control are the very same people who support the kinds of government that perpetuate famine. They advocate an evil to cure the results of the wickedness they support.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Government, People

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

  William E. Simon

  Political, Looks, National Debt

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• The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.

  Joseph Story

  Strong, Rights, Government

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the constitution of the United States”, p.357

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• What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Thinking

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• You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out.

  John Templeton

  Life, Adventure, Self

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• Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

  Peter Kreeft

  Ethics, Illusion, Virtue

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• There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Diversity, Age

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• Whether you are a medical doctor or a chiropractor or another type of healer, life has a challenge that you have to be egoless. You have to just become, without self, a healer at that moment, for that purpose.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Doctors, Self

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• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

  Stephen Covey

  Dna, Decisions We Make, Missions

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

  Stephen Covey

  Creating, Empowering, Important

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• No dream is too high for those with their eyes in the sky!

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dream, Eye, Sky

  "The next giant leap for space exploration" by Buzz Aldrin, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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• What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Want, Talent

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• When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.

  Robert Moss

  Opportunity, People, Events

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• The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Real, Light, Mold

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• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.

  Thomas Merton

  Compassion, Ideas, Life Is

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• What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

  Norman Cousins

  Skills, People, Perspective

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• If two or three agree on a common purpose, nothing is impossible.

  Jim Rohn

  Two, Common Purpose, Three

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 28, 2016

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• Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

  P. Chidambaram

  Criticism, Welcome, Made

  "A Conversation With: P. Chidambaram". Interview with Jim Yardley, india.blogs.nytimes.com. October 8, 2012.

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• You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

  David R. Brower

  Rivers, Advice, Environmental

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