Purpose Quotes - Page 28

• Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Lying, Suffering

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Mean, Government

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• Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Planning, Sensible, Household

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• Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspiring, Ambition, Achievement

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• The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  War, Goal, Essentials

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• This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Government, Common Purpose

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• The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

  George F. Kennan

  Defense, Nuclear, Bombs

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• Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Blessing

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• We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY

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• Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

  Ben Hunt

  Beautiful, Art, Communication

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• Passion is the model of all my actions.

  Philippe Petit

  Life, Passion, Action

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• The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

  David Viscott

  Life, Giving, Meaning Of Life

  David Viscott (2003). “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Play

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.517, University of Alabama Press

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• The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

  Robert Bork

  Equality, Law, Separation

  Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

  Richard Halverson

  Christian, Fashion, Religion

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• The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Writing, Criticism

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.569

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• Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Reading, Style

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.292

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• Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

  Mark Lepper

  Anticipation, Study, Seven

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• [Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first to succeed in showing him some future goal...Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on. He was soon lost.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Goal, Inner Strength

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• The question is whether or not our insecurities are substantial enough to hurt, limit, or even distract us from profound effectiveness or fulfillment of purpose.

  Beth Moore

  Hurt, Effectiveness, Profound

  Beth Moore (2010). “So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us”, p.15, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Being Positive, Religion

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• Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Idols, Religion

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Home, where life makes up its mind”

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• The only purpose of starting is to finish

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Starting

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.99, Penguin

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• The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not 'to have and to hold' but "to give and serve."

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Motivational, Men, Giving

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• The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

  James Rowland Angell

  Gratitude, Bread, Teach

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