Purpose Quotes - Page 47

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your personal development.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt flats, trickling away, seemingly without plan, purpose or goal, and suddenly emerge, gushing like geysers, and never cease gushing, even in death.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.

Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

The Universe knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.

I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.

The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose