Purpose Quotes - Page 41

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

There is no one insignificant in the purposes of God.

I think the world is a dead carcass and I think the purpose of human beings is as maggots.

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.

Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.

A rule should suit the purpose.

One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

I've been abducted and probed in the anus. On purpose.

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.