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Purpose Quotes - Page 55

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

"Dr. Ben Carson Says National Prayer Breakfast Speech Was Meant to 'Please God'" by Katherine Weber, www.christianpost.com. February 25, 2013.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

"'Get over it': Justice Scalia's most memorable quotes" by Bill Mears, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2016.

Those who are critical of my goals and dreams simply do not understand the higher purpose to which I have been called.

Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.139, Thomas Nelson Inc

There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made subservient to useful purposes; but which if left entirely to itself, may be attended with pernicious effects.

United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.109

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.268, Faber & Faber