Purpose Quotes

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
Igor Stravinsky

Music, Time, Between

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.
Ziggy Marley

Religion, Nature, Good

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams

Stands, Cheers, Serves

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom

Life, Yourself, Others

Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
J. C. Watts

Political, Single, Trying

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.
Jane Seymour

Life, Love, Simple

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
Robin G. Collingwood

Desire, Object, Intention

If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
Laura Linney

Job, Long, Done

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Jack London

Beauty, Book, Reason

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Sam Walter Foss

Men, Bring, Brains

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life, Happiness, Expansion

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Walter Benjamin

Attitude, Someone, Opinion

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Moshe Dayan

Soldiers, Bring, Conquer

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Alexander Alekhine

Life, Happiness, Human

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert

Himself, Except, Noble

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Mos Def

Positive, Art, Healing

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Edward de Bono

Science, Useful, Model

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
Brendan Fraser

Through, Show, Darkness

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
Harold MacMillan

Sense, Archbishop

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
Sidney Sheldon

Leadership, Peace, Happiness

I think punditry serves no purpose.
Nate Silver

Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Music, Game, Sound

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Will Cuppy

Good, Chance, Seems

The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
William O. Douglas

Life, Loyalty, Political

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.
Mike Johanns

Learn, Growing, Discipline

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
T. D. Jakes

Life, God, Done

The purpose firm is equal to the deed.
Edward Young

Equal, Deed, Firm

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
Theodore Bikel

God, Among, Claim

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
Mitch Daniels

Freedom, Free, Wrong

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames

Best, Design, Plan

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