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Purpose Quotes

I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Robert Walton in “Letter 1”. Walton expresses excitement for achieving his dream and finding his purpose in life.

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 24. Victor Frankenstein to ship’s crew.

My mother taught me that service to others gives life purpose and meaning.

– Kamala Harris

Donald escaped his father’s scorn and ridicule because his personality served his father’s purpose. That’s what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends – ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.

– Mary Trump

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Snoopy.

I’m intrigued by this view you have on the purpose of life, Charlie Brown. You say we’re put on this earth to make others happy?…What are the others put here for?

– Charles M. Schulz

Peanuts, Lucy van Pelt.

I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose.

– Mr. Spock

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Squire of Gothos’.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

– Horace

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

– Herbie Hancock

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

– Herbert Hoover

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

– Henepola Gunaratana

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn’t have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

– Howard Schultz

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don’t know why. It’s not something conscious or that I’m doing on purpose.

– Gaspard Ulliel

When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

– Howard Schultz

Every path serves a purpose.

– Gene Oliver

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

– George Haven Putnam

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

– Garet Garrett

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.

– Howard Thurman

Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good.

– Hilary Mantel

Sex appeal is not on purpose.

– Heather Locklear

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

– Henry Ward Beecher

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

– Harold MacMillan

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.

– Hugo Black

Every relationship that we have in our lives – our contact with each person, place, and event – serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

– Guy Finley

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

– Harold Rosenberg

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

– Gregor Mendel

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

– George Kaiser

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.

– Hermann Hesse

I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

– Guo Guangchang

Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.

– Howard Staunton

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