Purpose Quotes - Page 21

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.

Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.

We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

Christians are driven by God's promises, and directed by God's purposes.

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

They [Federal Goverment] don't care if I am guilty or innocent. I serve their purpose in here. Other than what I have mentioned, what fear could they possibly have from a old man with dimming eyesight, arthritis, diabetes, and other health issues that render me hardly a threat to anyone.

The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.