Purpose Quotes - Page 35

The purpose of art is delectation.

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

Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.

Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right."

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

How are you going to keep your workplace engaged, retained, active and motivated? It all comes down to what kind of meaning and purpose can you provide.

Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.

The purpose of the Lord's Supper is to receive from Christ the nourishment and strength and hope and joy that come from feasting our souls on all that He purchased for us on the cross, especially His own fellowship.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

My purpose is far greater than my pain

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.