Purpose Quotes - Page 16

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

Those who choose love - daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life - will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

Games have been called the lab for the development of moral attributes, but they will not, of themselves, accomplish this purpose. They must be properly conducted by competent individuals.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

Let us have a Universal Mind that loves and protects all creation and helps all things grow and develop. To unify mind and body and become one with the Universe is the ultimate purpose of our study.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

When every action has a purpose, every action has a result

The ultimate purpose of our life is to rejoin God in conscious participation of divinity.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

Don't feel obligated to spend time with people who pull you off the path of your life purpose.

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 maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. But in the mercantile system the interest of the consumer is almost constantly sacrificed to that of the producer; and it seems to consider production, and not consumption, as the ultimate end and object of all industry and commerce.

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

Live performance has always been my thing. It’s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.