Purpose Quotes - Page 66

A blog is a message in a bottle, both in purpose and likely readership.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

That's God's number one purpose, to make us like Christ.

A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.

Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering it's purpose.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

Purpose is not an add-on, it’s not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.

We should be in harmony with our own consciousness; our mind, body, and soul should be one in interest and in purpose. And in that unified condition, we can actually express that natural innate love that we have found in our own life in everything we do in the world.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.