Purpose Quotes

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama

Life, Hurt, Help

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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

Education, Mind, Open

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle

Time, Power, Angry

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice, Law, Become

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

Life, Happiness, Pain

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

Life, Art, Daily

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy

Courage, Enough, Direction

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Success, Work, Hard

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Dalai Lama

Life, Good, Men

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, True, Through

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin

Said, She, Defeat

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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Napoleon Hill

Mind, May, Through

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, True, Through

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan

Far, Possible, Existence

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

Devil, Scripture, Cite

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy

Work, Women, Men

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Live, Give

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Busy, Real

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer

Enjoy, Place, Dance

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Good, Heart

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life, Yourself, Mistakes

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy

Great, Power, Strength

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Spirit, Save

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Forget, Stupidity, Commonest

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino

Become, Here, Until

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
Red Skelton

Smile, Heart, Feeling

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington

Experience, Past, Unless

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung

Human, Light, Far

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