Purpose Quotes - Page 40

• The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Philosophy, Medicine, Yesterday

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• What you want will pull like a magnet. Here's the other part. What for? Purpose is stronger than object. It's the 'What for?' that's even more powerful than the object. And the more you can describe in detail to stir the emotion and the intellect and the spirit and the soul, then the more powerful the 'what for' is.

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Soul, Stronger

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• Your dreams are the blueprints of your soul. They should take you by the hand and lead you toward your life's purpose and passion. They are one of, if not the greatest, source of self-motivation that you have. So nurture them and feed them inspiration whenever you can.

  Mac Anderson

  Dream, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I had behaved toward the doll that Mamma Mae had given me as a child. I favored it so that I had refused myself of the joy of playing with it, daring to love it only with my eyes. But in doing so, I had denied myself its very purpose.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Love, Children, Eye

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• Nature creates nothing without a purpose.

  Aristotle

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.2078, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

  John Tillotson

  Hope, Men, Sick

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.663

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• The purposes of our God are great, His love unfathomable, His wisdom infinite, and His power unlimited; therefore, the Saints have cause to rejoice and be glad.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Saint, His Love, Causes

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• Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

  David W Augsburger

  Happiness, Feelings, Pressure

  David W. Augsburger (1982). “From Here to Maturity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Communication, Play

  "Language and Responsibility". Book by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. 1977.

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• At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

  Aristotle

  Over You, Needs, Talent

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• The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of happiness - in God. The reason for this is that there is no greater way to glorify God than to find in Him the happiness that my soul so desperately craves.

  Sam Storms

  Christian, Pursuit Of Happiness, Goal

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• This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

  Mark Nepo

  Attention, Ongoing, Way

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.129, Conari Press

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• We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

  Radhanath Swami

  Soul, Mind, World

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• An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

  Dee Hock

  Organization, Important, Principles

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• We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Heart, Way, Affection

  Mary Baker Eddy (1962). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

  Dawna Markova

  Mean, Ideas, Alive

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, p.44, Conari Press

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• Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you. You drag in some general-purpose value words. You throw in a sneer or two about the opposition, and you are a fine fellow who made a fine speech.

  Edward de Bono

  Two, Suits You, Perception

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• Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Pioneers, Generations, Today

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• Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the purpose of the branch, but it is not the responsibility of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Jesus, Responsibility, Fruit

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• All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product of man: he projects himself into it, he recognizes himself in it; that critical mirror alone offers him his image.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Men, Mirrors

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• Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Men, Example, Wonderful

  Dr. Laurence J. Peter (2013). “Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement.

  Nikola Tesla

  Energy, Three, Movement

  "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy". "Century" Illustrated Magazine, Volume 60, June 1900.

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• What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How can anyone help asking 'what' and 'why' when surrounded by an infinite sky?

  Ron James

  Live Life, Sky, Asking

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• The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

  Seth Godin

  Want, Elevators, Situation

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• The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

  Ken Calvert

  Cloning, Research, Bills

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