Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.
~By Howard Thurman ~
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
~By Edward Teller ~
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.
~By Richard Grant ~
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
~By Washington Irving ~
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
~By Duke Ellington ~
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
~By Mark Hanna ~
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
~By Harold Rosenberg ~
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
~By Nathan Deal ~
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
~By Pablo Casals ~
Our purpose is to be up here to resolve these issues. Our purpose is to be up here and represent the people.
~By Allen West ~
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.
~By Marc Wallice ~
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
~By Louis Leakey ~
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
~By John Ruskin ~
The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
~By Arthur Young ~
Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.
~By Mel Torme ~
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
~By Heather Donahue ~
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
~By Potter Stewart ~
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
~By James Allen ~
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
~By Max Planck ~
Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.
~By Scott Wolf ~
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~By William Henry Harrison ~
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
~By Howard Thurman ~
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
~By George Will ~
One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
~By Michael Kinsley ~
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
~By William J. Brennan ~
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
~By Stephen Baker ~
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
~By E. F. Schumacher ~
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
~By James Rouse ~
The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
~By Terrence Howard ~
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
~By Ira Glass ~
Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.
~By Charles Lawrence ~
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
~By David Rittenhouse ~
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.
~By Rick Warren ~
You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
~By Oswald Spengler ~
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
~By William O. Douglas ~
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
~By Sun Tzu ~
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
~By William E. Simon ~
The reason to split a court is for administrative purposes, and in the past there has been much debate about the liberal decisions of the Ninth Circuit and so forth; and people have wanted to get out of the Ninth Circuit for that reason.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.
~By Kim Mathers ~
If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible.
~By Don Nickles ~
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
~By Barbara Hepworth ~
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.
~By Alan Autry ~
The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
~By John Clayton ~
If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
~By Harold MacMillan ~
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
~By James Thurber ~
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
~By Sophia Loren ~
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
~By Gary L. Francione ~
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
~By William Henry Harrison ~
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
~By George Mason ~
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
~By John D. Rockefeller ~
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.
~By Mark Harmon ~
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
~By Howard Nemerov ~
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
~By Maimonides ~
Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
~By Kate Smith ~
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
~By Samuel Alexander ~
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
~By John Stossel ~
It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.
~By Roy Moore ~
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
~By Erich Fromm ~
If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
~By William Godwin ~
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
~By Bill Alexander ~
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
~By Hugo Black ~
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
~By Morarji Desai ~
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
~By Robert Walpole ~
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
~By Colin Powell ~
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