Purpose Quotes - Page 15

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.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

The purpose that you were created Man is exactly this: to prove, you too, with your life and with your work that everything can and should be done without any purpose. To be accomplished as the entire creation is accomplished.

God has plans and purposes for each of our lives. But the beauty is that He doesn't call us and leave us on our own. Jesus actually lives in us to pull off the amazing things that He has invited us into.

The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any trouble, we wouldn't need any faith.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

When I think of organizations, I think of the capabilities an organization has more than its morphology or structure. The ability of an organization to have a shared purpose and the ability for employees to be productive are critical capabilities for most organizations today.

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

Like black, do you? (Cassandra) It serves its purpose. It’s hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end.

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be.