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

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

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

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

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven Wright

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker

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

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

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

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx

The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Saint Augustine

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Colin Powell