The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. Votes: 6
Albert SchweitzerThe meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Votes: 3
Pablo PicassoThe secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Votes: 2
Fyodor DostoevskyFind a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. Votes: 2
David O. McKayAll men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. Votes: 2
James ThurberAny time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging. Votes: 2
Joyce MeyerAny idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. Votes: 1
Napoleon HillPurpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other. Votes: 1
Robert K. GreenleafIn order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose... Votes: 1
Ayn RandDreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on. Votes: 1
Steven CallahanOur purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth. Votes: 1
Anthony D. WilliamsThe purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Votes: 1
Ayn RandThere is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish. Votes: 0
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonThe purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellGenius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonThe purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be?
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAtheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.
Roswell Dwight HitchcockI thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.
Natasha Gregson WagnerI would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
Oliver Wendell HolmesLeader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
Mary Parker FollettProblems are here in this world so that we can realize our purpose in this world.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarArt is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
W. Somerset MaughamThe extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
William ShakespeareIt could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
Ashleigh BrilliantIn pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.
Augustus Welby Northmore PuginThe fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.
Julian of NorwichA burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.
Margaret Bourke-WhiteThe purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.
Florence LittauerEvery man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
Laurence J. PeterEd Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.
R. K. MilhollandCompassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.
Robert V. TaylorPurpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.
Charles Henry ParkhurstI feel that when a child has self-worth and purpose, that's what keeps them grounded.
Jada Pinkett SmithGovernment should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose.
Michael BloombergThe great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
Michel de MontaigneTo purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.
Radhanath SwamiThere is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
Robert BreaultYou can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.
Robert BreaultThe purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.
Thomas Balogh, Baron BaloghYou are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.
Aiden Wilson TozerThe falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.
Chuck KlostermanAllow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.
Gabrielle BernsteinThe only purpose of advertising is to sell. It has no other function worth mentioning.
Raymond RubicamThe nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
William E. SimonGirls are like slugsâthey probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.
Bill WattersonSignals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator
Deepak ChopraI told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose,
Edward SnowdenThe Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellHe who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.
Hazrat Inayat KhanThe excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose
Joshua ReynoldsComedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.
Margaret ChoThe purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.
Peter DruckerThe true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.
Theodore LevittEvery branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.
Claudius BuchananThe purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...
Czeslaw MiloszWe have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.
Eknath EaswaranThe purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'
George HarrisonIt's a purpose that brings us all together, working for something larger than ourselves.
Kamala LopezThe purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
Le CorbusierIf you actually do something you love it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.
Mark ZuckerbergMan, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel ButlerLife is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Viktor E. FranklWhen God gives us a talent it is our responsibility to hone it for His purpose and glory
Yoshiko SakuraiTALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
Ambrose BierceYou are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.
Dannion BrinkleyThe true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.
Deepak ChopraThe ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.
Edgar CayceZen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellPeople you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.
Harry TurtledoveThe purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
James MadisonThe purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.
Marianne WilliamsonI think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.
Marina AbramovicLeo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.
Nicholas MeyerSometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Robert BreaultReligious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
Thomas JeffersonThe primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home.
Virginia LinderEvery way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
William JamesWhen one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Oscar WildeThe resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.
Oswald ChambersI know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.
Ozzy OsbourneThe purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.
Edward C. PrescottThe illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.
Herbert ReadIt is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha.
Herman MelvilleThe purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit.
Ian GardnerA marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
James Russell LowellThe redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
John MiltonHeâs a war mage. Theyâre almost impossible to kill.â He scowled. âEven on purpose.
Karen ChanceIt was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.
Luis SepúlvedaYour sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.
SivanandaThe exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.
Wallace D. WattlesAS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them
Donald A. NormanEverything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.
Donald WuerlI know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
Friedrich NietzscheI believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly.
Jack CanfieldOur province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.
Jim PrenticeHave I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?
John Baillie...the war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to go on.
Kevin PowersTranscending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.
Mata AmritanandamayiTechnology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.
Paul DaviesLove. Purpose. Those are things that you can't plan for. Those are things that just happen.
Rainbow RowellIt's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].
Steve GuttenbergFor me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.
Will SmithThe purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.
Aiden Wilson TozerGod does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.
Aiden Wilson TozerI think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots...
Alison MoyetEven the most casual events are connected to God's purpose for His people from all eternity.
Alistair BeggI serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
Benjamin CarsonThe real purpose of running isn't to win a race, it's to test the limits of the human heart.
Bill BowermanWords can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.
Deepak ChopraSuffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.
Eckhart TolleSpiritual partnership is the partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.
Gary ZukavEverything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.
Iyanla VanzantSimplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.
Jonathan IveIt is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.
M.L. StedmanLove is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
Marianne WilliamsonLiving your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.
Mastin KippThe purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible
Pierre-Auguste RenoirWe discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.
Rick WarrenThere is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.
Robert BreaultPurpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.
Robin SharmaThe records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken
Tommy WoodcockThe purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.
Zelda FitzgeraldIf you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.
Bill CrawfordThe things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.
Chuck KlostermanThe purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
Clarence DarrowHaving purpose. I had purpose during my presidency, and I've got purpose after my presidency.
George W. BushMusic's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.
Johann Sebastian BachIDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.
Napoleon HillAlways persevere, always have a great perspective, and always have great purpose in your life
Russell WilsonI designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.
Savannah BrinsonPetty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
Stephen CoveyA disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaWhen we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
AdyashantiIf I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
Alan BennettThe guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
Alan GreenspanA throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
Alan RedpathMy purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
Alfred Lord TennysonPrison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyDon't feel obligated to spend time with people who pull you off the path of your life purpose.
Doreen VirtueIt is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
Erwin McManusBecause obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
Mel TormeThe purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.
Minoru YamasakiThe purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Peter DruckerPurpose is not an add-on, it's not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes
Richard BransonA zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
Robert A. HeinleinMy main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions....
Thomas A. Edison... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.
Billy GrahamMy walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.
Bob SegerIn a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.
Charles HandyThe purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas - not ideas safe for students.
Clark KerrThe clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.
Eve EnslerThe purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
Henry FlyntThe discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
Irwin EdmanBut what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?
Jeff VandermeerWe cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.
Joe LiebermanWe are all part of some great cycle, some pattern that it was only God's purpose to understand.
Jojo MoyesI do need to travel with a purpose, though. I can't go somewhere to just hang out with friends.
Laird HamiltonThe brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.
Richard BransonAbsolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.
Rick WarrenIt's not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life's purpose and mission.
Robert KiyosakiEveryone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.
Robert ThurmanThe purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
Stanley FishThe work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.
Oprah WinfreyTrue inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.
Caroline Emelia StephenWhen even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.
Cyril ConnollyWill power is but the unflinching purpose to carry the task you set for yourself to fulfillment.
George S. ClasonI wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.
Jodi PicoultAptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFun is only real and sustainable if it feeds off the team's purpose and performance aspirations.
John KatzenbachBefore the Beginning was a Cause and the entire purpose of the Cause was the creation of effect,
L. Ron HubbardNo matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose
Mahatma GandhiConsumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.
Marion NestleI don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.
Neal BarnardYou have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.
Neal ShustermanThe purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
R. Buckminster FullerWhat drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.
Robert BallardPiling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
Ronald ReaganThe standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
Steven FurtickChinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
Wu GuanzhongPurpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.
AristotleIf we choose to see things positively and trust in God, he will fulfill his purpose in our lives.
Betsy LandinI do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.
Bill HicksThe main purpose of a significance test is to inhibit the natural enthusiasm of the investigator.
Frederick MostellerIt is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep ...
Jane AddamsThe United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.
John E. RankinAfter all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
Kate MortonThe main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
Madeleine AlbrightThe transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.
Marianne WilliamsonGod wants us to delight in living His purpose for us, which is why our passion plays a huge part!
Paige OmartianSuccessful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.
Paul WellstoneFour times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals
Richard J. FosterWill we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
Rick WarrenGod made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.
Valorie BurtonThe ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
W. Edwards DemingBut men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
William ShakespeareThe purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.
Benjamin FranklinServing reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.
Bill JohnsonThe establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success
Brian TracyWhen you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.
Deepak ChopraCast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.
DeVon FranklinDo not miss the purpose of this life, and do not wait for circumstance to mold or change you fate.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxDevils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.
Fritz LeiberThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
George Bernard ShawTo provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.
Jeremy SeabrookThe purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.
Joan BladesThe church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
John StottThe only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
Michael EisnerI feel like it's almost my purpose to speak up about my experience so it could help somebody else.
Normani HamiltonPain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
Rebecca SolnitWorking hard is one thing, but working hard with purpose is what separates the good from the great
Thad MattaMy performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.
Vaginal DavisI know very well about the necessary level of reserves of the Central Bank as well as the purpose.
Vladimir PutinExamine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.
William ZinsserMy purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness
Andrei TarkovskyYour only purpose is to be yourself, otherwise you deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Anita MoorjaniWhatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.
Deepak ChopraIt was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.
Ian AndersonLife is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
Jean FlemingEvery individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.
Joe TyeI'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.
Lee Kuan YewThe true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.
Ronald ReaganAffirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.
Susan MilesSomewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.
Viktor E. FranklIn order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.
Wayne DyerIt cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
Alan AutryBecause of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
Anselm KieferIt is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
Arthur Conan DoyleTeams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual.
Bill GatesYou want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.
Bob ProctorI would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that,
Elizabeth HolmesAll the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.
Gerard Manley HopkinsIf language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.
John NapierThere is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
John RuskinIt is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.
Jon Campbell[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
Malcolm XThis is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.
Mark NepoAnger tells us we've disconnected from life. The purpose in anger is to use it to come back to life.
Marshall B. RosenbergBuilding a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.
Michael GerberMusic must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...
Pablo CasalsA characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. Votes: 1 Tom Glazer
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. Votes: 1 Charlie Chaplin
When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible. Votes: 4 Howard Schultz
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need. Votes: 3 E. F. Schumacher
We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction. Votes: 1 Charles Kennedy
I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. Votes: 1 Betty Buckley
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless. Votes: 4 James E. Faust
Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy. Votes: 1 Kelly Miller
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose. Votes: 3 Oscar Wilde
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form. Votes: 1 Martha Beck
Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn? Votes: 3 Bauvard
The Bible is very clear that God has a purpose. But even if I know that purpose, I can't fulfill it if I'm out of shape. Votes: 1 Rick Warren
Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way. Votes: 1 Scott Wolf
Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose. Votes: 3 Joyce Meyer
To accomplish your goals and purposes in life you must be constantly refreshed by Him. Votes: 3 Sunday Adelaja
Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem. Votes: 2 Charlene Tilton
The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life. Votes: 2 Henry B. Eyring
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you? Votes: 1 Ben Carson
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself. Votes: 3 Denis Waitley
Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's only really quite recently that we've relegated the fantastic as being just imagination and not real and having no purpose. Votes: 3 Brian Froud
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Votes: 2 Washington Irving
We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends. Votes: 3 Natalia Vodianova
So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes. Votes: 5 Robert Kiyosaki
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and a reawakening of the longing to fulfill that purpose in life. Votes: 3 Robert Fritz
Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world. Votes: 4 Bill Drayton
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith. Votes: 1 Thomas S. Monson
Have a life that matters. A life with purpose. Find your own way but don't lose sight of the journey. Votes: 3 A. Meredith Walters
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose. Votes: 6 Rick Warren
I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose. Votes: 3 Ann Curry
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get? Votes: 3 Dan Millman
Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion. Votes: 3 Ralph Marston
Never forget why you should win or achieve your goals and dreams. Once you feel you are losing purpose in the process, remind yourself why you saw the need to begin in the first place, let that drive you. Votes: 3 Unarine Ramaru
And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God. Votes: 4 Jamey Johnson
We look for meaning and purpose; children bring that. Votes: 4 Johnathon Schaech
Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Votes: 1 David A. Bednar
I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in . Votes: 2 David Niven
Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters. Votes: 4 Jane Leavy
If you are just spaced out and you have no purpose in life, you pick everything up. Everybody else's thoughts will come into your mind, everyone else's desires. Votes: 3 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose. Votes: 3 A. P. Herbert
My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is. Votes: 1 Iyanla Vanzant
Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. Votes: 3 Jeane Dixon
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point. Votes: 5 Laurence Fishburne
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. Votes: 4 Marianne Williamson
Everyone will not favor you or respect your beliefs, passion and purpose--so be it. But do not allow the views of others to hinder your quest. Remain steadfast. Votes: 3 Terry A. O'Neal
A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose. Votes: 3 Darrell Calkins
A life without integrity, faith, courage and a positive purpose, is an unnecessary gamble with no positive possibility. Votes: 3 Edmond Mbiaka
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. Votes: 1 Muhammad Iqbal
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. Votes: 5 John F. Kennedy
I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent. Votes: 2 Theodore Bikel
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Votes: 4 Stephen Hawking
Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life. Votes: 3 Steve Maraboli
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. Votes: 7 Mitch Albom
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering. Votes: 3 Peter Diamandis
Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life. Votes: 4 Francine Rivers
A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential Votes: 3 John C. Maxwell
There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender. Votes: 3 Bryant McGill
Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life. Votes: 3 Harold George Koenig
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Votes: 2 Stephen Hawking
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. Votes: 1 Mitt Romney
The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. Votes: 1 Eric Liu
The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. Votes: 3 Eric Liu
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. Votes: 2 William Cowper
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. Votes: 1 Nat King Cole
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life. Votes: 2 Bono
When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life. Votes: 3 Bono
In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained. Votes: 1 Anne Graham Lotz
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. Votes: 2 George Halas
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different. Votes: 3 Jesse Ball
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. Votes: 5 Pablo Picasso
Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried. Votes: 3 George Muller
The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. Votes: 3 Leo Burnett
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government. Votes: 1 Roy Moore
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. Votes: 3 Derek Bok
The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that. Votes: 3 Trevor Noah
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. Votes: 1 Robert W. Welch, Jr.
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. Votes: 1 Peter Nivio Zarlenga
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Votes: 6 Malcolm Forbes
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. Votes: 3 Karl Kraus
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. Votes: 2 E. Stanley Jones
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens. Votes: 7 Arlen Specter
Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives. Votes: 4 Mortimer Adler
The supreme purpose of history is a better world. Votes: 3 Herbert Hoover
If journalism is the first draft of history, then talk radio provides an early glimpse into how the meaning of political events will be spun for ideological and partisan purposes. Votes: 3 Jackson Katz
Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life. Votes: 5 Grace Slick
It is not the purpose of literature to purvey news. For news consult the Almanac de Gotha. Votes: 4 Herman Melville
I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around. Votes: 3 Guy Ritchie
The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused. Votes: 3 Edward Abbey
I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it. Votes: 2 Landon Liboiron
The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God. Votes: 4 Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people. Votes: 4 Sade Adu
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Votes: 3 Wallace Stevens
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular. Votes: 3 Josh Radnor
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich. Votes: 4 Napoleon Bonaparte
The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world. Votes: 3 William Torrey Harris
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government. Votes: 1 Roy Moore
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. Votes: 1 Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life. Votes: 4 Ricardo Semler
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Votes: 3 Bill Watterson
Knowing your purpose on earth is simple, but the task here is to bring about the success of your destiny. Votes: 3 Michael Bassey Johnson
If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life. Votes: 1 Rick Warren
You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose. Votes: 3 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. Votes: 3 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything. Votes: 4 Ozzie Smith
The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative. Votes: 3 K'naan
What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction. Votes: 3 Dee Hock
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." Votes: 3 Dave Barry
Working consciously with the Divine Map of Transformation aligns you to the Earth and the Heavens, to your soul purpose and your personal individuation, to your inner growth and external manifestation. Votes: 3 Gia Combs-Ramirez
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose. Votes: 1 Clifford D. Simak
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. Votes: 3 Walter Scott
The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. Votes: 4 Liberty Hyde Bailey
It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier. Votes: 3 Clarence Clemons
Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk. Votes: 4 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that they are the party of national growth, racial equality and unity of purpose. These Lincolnian themes will serve Republicans - and the nation - much better than becoming the party on the lookout for the supposed rat head of higher taxes. Votes: 3 Alan Siegel
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. Votes: 3 Paul Tsongas
What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. Votes: 5 Dalai Lama
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Votes: 1 Washington Irving
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Votes: 1 Bill Watterson