Purpose Quotes

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen… Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

It was the special purpose of Christ’s appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.