PURPOSE QUOTES II

quotations about purpose

The hypothesis will lead to our thinking of features of each Universe as purposed; and this will stand or fall with the hypothesis. Yet a purpose essentially involves growth, and so cannot be attributed to God. Still it will, according to the hypothesis, be less false to speak so than to represent God as purposeless.

CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE

"A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God"


It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods

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Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Notebooks

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When you're clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it's clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar.

VICTORIA MORAN

Lit from Within


Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it.

GEORGE KUBLER

The Shape of Time


The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

letter to Eliza Gurney, September 4, 1864

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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Gautama Buddha: Life & Words

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If you are a philosopher you can do this thing: you can go to the top of a high building, look down upon your fellow-men 300 feet below, and despise them as insects. Like the irresponsible black waterbugs on summer ponds, they crawl and circle and hustle about idiotically without aim or purpose. They do not even move with the admirable intelligence of ants, for ants always know when they are going home. The ant is of a lowly station, but he will often reach home and get his slippers on while you are left at your elevated station.

O. HENRY

"Psyche and the Pskyscraper"

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Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.

STEVE MARABOLDI

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience


There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Inaugural Address, 1905

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Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

STEVE MARABOLI

Life, the Truth, and Being Free


Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

PHILIP ZIMBARDO

The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

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I need to have a purpose in life and for that I might sacrifice some of the luxuries that I enjoy; fortunately I am fairly adaptable. I try to be aware, flexible and unbiased in my thinking. If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

MARGOT FONTEYN

Margot Fonteyn: Autobiography


Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

BETTE DAVIS

attributed, Witty Words From Wise Women

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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

MARGARET ATWOOD

The Year of the Flood

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We often miss the end of life by having no object before us.

HENRY F. KLETZING

Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light


If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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"Everything must have a purpose?" asked God.
"Certainly," said man.
"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.

KURT VONNEGUT

Cat's Cradle

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

R. J. ANDERSON

Ultraviolet