The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 64
Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that. Tom Krause American motivational speaker More Tom Krause Quotes 5
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. Dale Carnegie American Writer More Dale Carnegie Quotes 3
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 3
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
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. Anne Sullivan American Educator More Anne Sullivan Quotes 2
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle Ancient Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 2
Because its purpose is to create a customer, your business has two purposes and two purposes only: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation make you money, generate sales, produce profit. Everything else is an expense... Peter Drucker More Peter Drucker Quotes 2
If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life. Rick Warren American Writer More Rick Warren Quotes 2
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you. Anthony Robbins American More Anthony Robbins Quotes 2
The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong. Nevin Fenneman More Nevin Fenneman Quotes 1
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant German Philosopher More Immanuel Kant Quotes 1
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. Bertrand Russell British Philosopher More Bertrand Russell Quotes 1
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Benjamin Disraeli British Statesman More Benjamin Disraeli Quotes 1
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson American President More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes 1
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Scientist More Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes 1
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett American Businessman More Bo Bennett Quotes 1
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. Joseph Lancaster English Educator More Joseph Lancaster Quotes 1
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali More Patanjali Quotes 1
Illumination is the purpose of life; of the recurring sequence of birth and death. Atharva Veda More Atharva Veda Quotes 1
I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose. Willie Stargell American Athlete More Willie Stargell Quotes 1
Economics has as its purpose firstly to acquire knowledge for its own sake, and secondly to throw light on practical issues. But though we are bound, before entering on any study, to consider carefully what are its uses, we should not plan out our work with direct reference to them. Alfred Marshall British More Alfred Marshall Quotes 1