Purpose Quotes

“Means and ends”

“No matter how stormy the ocean is, the river still knows its way.”

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

“Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.”

“Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it.”

“The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose.”

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“Every nation, like every individual, has received a mission that it must fulfil.”

“Wikipedia: Purpose”

“Purposes are deduced from behaviour, not from rhetoric or stated goals.”

“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.”

“Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct.”

“Not result is the purpose of action, but God's eternal delight in becoming, seeing and doing.”

“I am working in everybody and whatever men may think or do, they can do nothing but help in my purpose.”

“Even flies, parasites and microbes have their purpose to fulfil, and there is nothing superfluous in creation.”

“A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.”

“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.”

“Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”

“Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.”

“I take great satisfaction in seeing people and organizations achieve goals they might have originally believed to be beyond their reach.”