Purpose Quotes

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.
John L. Lewis

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
Maria Montessori

But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
Pablo Neruda

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Thomas Hardy

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.
Marquis de Sade

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Simone de Beauvoir

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
James Allen

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
Louis XIV

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
David Ogilvy

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.
David Ogilvy

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler

Food simply isn't important to me.
Alice Paul

Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry A. Kissinger

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.
Ralph Ellison

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
A. J. P. Taylor