Purpose Quotes

Life is a long quest for a purpose, which can often lead to the exhaustion of all the resources. Nothing in universe exists without a specific purpose; one only needs the eye to find one. Quite ironically but, despite all our wisdom and knowledge we are pushed back to the same question in various phases of our life. These famous purpose quotes and intent quotations and sayings will wise you up on your purpose and will provide clarity by removing the clouds of doubts from your mind.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith

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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
Body Technology
William S. Burroughs

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A healthy environment, a strong economy and energy independent America - that would be the purpose of my presidency, is break the strangle hold that people enjoy on fossil fuels who hate our guts.
People Hatred
Lindsey Graham

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I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
Darkness
Brendan Fraser

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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Art Curiosity Teachers
Anatole France

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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.
Trying Weak Point
Kin Hubbard

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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Victory Wars Happiness
William S. Burroughs

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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Curiosity Research Learning
Zora Neale Hurston

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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Battles Violence Wars Fighting
Adolf Hitler

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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Suffering
Willie Nelson

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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Men Attitude Confidential Self-Centeredness
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
Kobe Bryant

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I still go see films for entertainment, and I love them, but for me as a filmmaker, I really want to have a purpose in telling a story.
Love
Charlie McDowell

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Life Age Old Age
Dwight L. Moody

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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Men Motivation Nothing Reason
Malcolm X

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I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.
Brendan Fraser

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I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Grace
Christopher Columbus

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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Life Art
Pablo Picasso

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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Best Meaningful Music Appreciation
John Greenleaf Whittier

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There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
Time
Georges St-Pierre

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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
Right
Antonin Scalia

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Compassion Life
Albert Schweitzer

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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Life Work
Stephen Hawking

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Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river.
Music
Ilaiyaraaja

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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Life Soul
Michel de Montaigne

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Leadership Life Advice Order
Thomas Paine

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
Good Power Community
John Stuart Mill

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
Funny Inspiration Books Defeat
George Carlin

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George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.
Positivity
Josh Brolin

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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
Good Education
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.
Time
Joaquin Phoenix

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Achievement Reason Support Efficiency
Thomas Jefferson

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The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.
Life
Leo Buscaglia

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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
Christopher Columbus

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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Darkness Light
Carl Jung

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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Success Success
Benjamin Disraeli

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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Guts Responsibility Self Confidence Duty
Walter Scott

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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Beauty Patience
Charlie Chaplin

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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Sports Control Golf
Woodrow Wilson

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I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.
School
Lisa Marie Presley

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These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.
Nation
Cory Booker

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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
James Madison

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After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
Men Questions Enjoyment Women
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

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Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Achievement Attitude Purity Right
Thomas Jefferson

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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.
Honor
Hermann Hesse

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But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Greatness Truth
Christopher Columbus

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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
Time
Bruce Springsteen

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The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.
Nature People
Trevor Noah

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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.
Aggression Success
Lyndon B. Johnson

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Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.
Life
George Harrison

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I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.
Learning Success
John Belushi

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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
Cost Terrorism
Tony Blair

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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Peace
Saint Augustine

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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness
Helen Keller

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The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Journalism
Tom Stoppard

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Nothing
Edgar Allan Poe

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Quality Knowledge
Napolean Hill

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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Opinion People
Quentin Crisp

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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
People
Aldous Huxley

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The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
Practice Ideas
Bill Watterson

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Life
Eric Hoffer

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We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Achievement Progress
Robert Kennedy

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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Nothing
Benjamin Disraeli

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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
Past Experience
George Washington

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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Thinking Mind
Christopher Morley

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What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.
Training Faith Imagination
Chuck Palahniuk

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Zeal Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe

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Success demands singleness of purpose.
Success Success
Vince Lombardi

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Courage
John F. Kennedy

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There's a difference between a job and purpose. If I did my job without purpose, I wouldn't have the intention to put things out there that should be heard. But I have a purpose.
Things Jobs
Jeannie Mai

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Business
Peter Drucker

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The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand

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People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview.
People Service Nation
Mitt Romney

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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Happiness
Helen Keller

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The difference between men is in energy, in the strong will, in the settled purpose and in the invincible determination.
Determination Energy
Vince Lombardi

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Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan

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The sole purpose of nuclear weapons must be to deter their use by others.
Dianne Feinstein

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I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.
Society
Rachael Stirling

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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Fall Eyes
Robert Browning

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The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
Earth Wars
Nikola Tesla

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It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.
Tom Petty

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I've always been a very sensitive person, and people tell me that if I'm in a certain mood, and I go into a room, my mood will permeate the room. It's not on purpose - I'd rather be invisible in those moments - but I'm really bad at faking how I feel.
People
Rooney Mara

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Soul Experience
D. H. Lawrence

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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Simone Weil

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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

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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Money
Karl Marx

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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Death Life
Carl Jung

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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Nothing Universe
Bertrand Russell

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I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
PC
Dave Barry

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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
Machinery
Antonin Scalia

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Happiness
Marcel Proust

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Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.
Service
John McCain

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I've been very hands-on with everything I've done since I had my children. And it's just really important for me to understand the big picture, where everybody's coming from, what's the real purpose of this shoot and this song, or whatever it is in that moment that I'm doing.
Britney Spears

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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Recurrence Mind
Napolean Hill

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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.
Pride Right
Horace

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I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
Action
Sonia Sotomayor

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer

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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Devil
William Shakespeare

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