Purpose Quotes - Page 29

• In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland.

  Sean Lemass

  Memories, War, Believe

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• There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Ambition, History, Office

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• MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Names, Magic

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.159, University of Georgia Press

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• Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'

  Mother Teresa

  Ideas, Advice, Calling

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• Make sure that the career you choose is one you enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it will be difficult to give the extra time, effort, and devotion it takes to be a success. If it is a career that you find fun and enjoyable, then you will do whatever it takes. You will give freely of your time and effort and you will not feel that you are making a sacrifice in order to be a success.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Fun, Sacrifice, Order

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• Everybody is an expert in giving advice on how you cannot do something. So forget about everybody. And then, when you encounter a hurdle-and I do that every week-view it as an opportunity, not the end of the world. Do whatever you need to do to get past it quickly. If you believe in your dream, you'll definitely get there.

  Maria Elena Ibanez

  Dream, Believe, Past

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• What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bigs, Purpose Of Life

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• You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Forever

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• Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Unique, Animal

  "The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader".

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• I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Touching, Use

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• ...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Flesh, Feeding

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Les Confidences”, p.60

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• The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

  Henry Flynt

  Art, Genre Is, Logical

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• The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

  William Alexander

  Anger, Weapons, Tanks

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• The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Zombie, Doe

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.417, Penguin

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• The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

  George Inness

  Art, Mind, Doe

  George Inness, Nicolai Cikovsky, Michael Quick, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1985). “George Inness”, HarperCollins

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• The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

  Theodore Levitt

  True Purpose, Customers

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• The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

  Theodore Levitt

  Clever, Engineering, Wizardry

  Theodore Levitt (1986). “Marketing Imagination: New, Expanded Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea to use backpacks came from my visit to Sichuan after the earthquake in May 2008. During the earthquake many schools collapsed. Thousands of young students lost their lives, and you could see bags and study material everywhere. Then you realize individual life, media, and the lives of the students are serving very different purposes. The lives of the students disappeared within the state propaganda, and very soon everybody will forget everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  School, Media, Forget Everything

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• You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

  Ai Weiwei

  Expression, Needs, Express Yourself

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• Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

  Julian Casablancas

  Art, Art Is

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• Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Secret, Littles, Looks

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

  Washington Gladden

  Christian, May, Ruling

  Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

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• There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.

  Richard J. Foster

  Eye, Keys, Perfect

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

  Richard J. Foster

  Years, Goal, Four

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• I look upon ourselves as partners in all of this, and that each of us contributes and does what he can do best. And so I see not a top rung and a bottom rung - I see all this horizontally - and I see this as part of a matrix. And I see every human being as having a purpose, a destiny, if you like - the destiny that exists in each of us - and find ways and means to provide such opportunities for everyone.

  Jonas Salk

  Mean, Opportunity, Destiny

  Interview with Richard D. Heffner on The Open Mind, May 11, 1985.

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