Purpose Quotes - Page 53

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.

Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Sex appeal is not on purpose.

You know your general purpose is to become a Co-worker with God. So how do you identify your personal goal?

You see, there is no more purpose or meaning in the world than you put into it.

The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome.

The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.

When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

The purpose of your life is Joy.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

The purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.