Purpose Quotes

"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."

"Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."

"I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose..."

"He said / Little, but to the purpose."

"The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose."

"They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed."

"Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is."

"We came down here with a purpose. But our goal is not over yet."

"We came down here with a purpose. Right now, we have placed ourselves in a position to win this thing. We are obviously pleased with that. Our goal is not over, yet."

"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."

"If my primary purpose here at Indiana is to go out and win ballgames, I can probably do that as well as anybody can. I would just cheat, get some money from alot of people around Indianapolis who want to run the operation that way, and just go out and get the best basketball players I can. Then we'd beat everybody."

"To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is."

"Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it."

"You just have to know something like that to have a good at-bat in that situation. Our purpose in doing this is to see where they are and adjust our teachings accordingly."

"I know he tends to float that way, whether or not he does it on purpose. He's able to find places where the defense can't find him."

"In addition to being more attractive, they are much more convenient ... but will serve the same purpose."

"The team played with much better rhythm and purpose during the last game. Some of the rust looked like it was coming off. I was pleased with the progress. We have several players returning next fall and we have high expectations for the level of soccer that we should be performing at. Hopefully, we'll build on this during the coming weeks."

"They don't want to set up shop in Pennsylvania for the sole purpose of redirecting gamblers to New Jersey."

"Getting the audience to cry for the Terminator at the end of T2, for me that was the whole purpose of making that film. If you can get the audience to feel emotion for a character that in the previous film you despised utterly and were terrified by, then that's a cinematic arc."

"We're still talking to condo developers, but our purpose is to create very traditional-style duplex condominiums. They will be very single-family in appearance."