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Purpose Quotes - Page 58

The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.204, Discovery House

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.218, Macmillan

At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.

"'Twilight' Tuesday: Nikki Reed Hopes to Make Us Understand What's Beneath Rosalie's Beautiful, Hard Exterior". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. July 22, 2008.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.48, Penguin

It is by that which cannot be taken away that we can measure ourselves.

"Mia Farrow: What I've Learned" by John H.Richardson, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

"Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality" by Marilynne Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2010.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.221, Modern Library

The things people really want are love, connection, and purpose.

"6 Ways To Find Real Happiness". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2013.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

Madeleine Albright (2009). “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box”, p.20, Harper Collins

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.174