Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
E. Joseph Cossman
Rose Kennedy
Pope Paul VI
Honore de Balzac
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
George Chapman
All authors
Today's birthdays
1873 - Ellen Glasgow
1707 - Henry Fielding
1899 - Vladimir Nabokov
1870 - Vladimir Lenin
1724 - Immanuel Kant
1937 - Jack Nicholson
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Clergyman
Psychologist
Inventor
Saint
Architect
Philosopher
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Purpose Quotes
Purpose Quotes
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Peter Drucker
Business
Purpose
Customer
Create
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
Happiness
Life
You
Do The Right Thing
Be Happy
Happy
Right Thing
Bad
Worthy
Purpose
Feel
Makes
The Right Thing
Even
Right
Thing
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
Work
Future
Day
Respect
Women
Every Day
People
Vision
Dreamers
Men
Men And Women
Big
Every
Imagination
Distant
Purpose
Could
Ideal
Toward
Goal
Women Are
Then
Successful
Successful People
Imagine
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.
Dwight L. Moody
Life
Age
Old
Will
Become
Old Age
Preparation
Teens
Later
Purpose
Retirement
Until
Empty
Begin
Than
Which
Should
Filled
Suddenly
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe
Me
Will
Criticism
Nothing
Foe
Shall
Purpose
Absolutely
Friend
Just
Turn
Bold
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Life
Hatred
Give
Purpose
Empty
Passionate
Meaning
Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.
Nick Vujicic
Thankful
Angry
Gratitude
Be Happy
Happy
People
Despite
Be Thankful
About
Having
Purpose
Arms
Limbs
Answer
How
Quick
Manage
Often
Legs
Ask
Choice
Chose
To me, I will be a stronger person if I'm moving forward, doing the work I want, and continue to drive: force the purpose that I want to create versus doing what other people think I should be doing, which is never a way to live.
Payal Kadakia
Work
Me
Moving Forward
People
Will
Stronger
Drive
Live
Think
Other
Way
Stronger Person
Purpose
Never
Force
Doing
Continue
Versus
Person
Want
Which
Moving
Create
Should
Forward
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs
Happiness
War
Conflict
Victory
Those
Seek
Purpose
Without
Itself
Who
Function
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Adolf Hitler
War
Purpose
Alliance
Wage
Any
Intention
Senseless
Useless
Whose
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand
You
Yourself
Live
Enjoy
Morality
Purpose
Die
Teach
Suffer
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Together
Differences
Must
Compose
Purpose
Arms
Learn
How
Intellect
Decent
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
Henry Steele Commager
Censorship
Own
Society
Kind
Purpose
Fact
Exercising
Always
Real
End
Discretion
In The End
Creates
Incapable
Defeats
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
James Rouse
Service
Business
People
Profit
Purpose
Well
Provide
Legitimate
Product
Profitable
Need
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan
Welfare
Own
Possible
Purpose
Existence
As Far As
Far
Should
Eliminate
Need
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.
Sam Harris
Love
Loneliness
Thoughts
Emotions
Enjoy
Thinking
Others
Our
Everything
Pleasure
Eat
Purpose
Foods
Feel
Like
Altering
Read
Another
Friendships
Person
Form
Fleeting
Certain
Avoid
Specific
Presence
Consciousness
Tongues
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
Ought
Sole
Promoting
Only
Purpose
Consumer
Consumption
Attended
End
May
Interest
Far
Producer
Production
Necessary
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
Human Being
Consists
Purpose
Never
Sacrificing
Human
Being
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.
Benjamin Disraeli
Myself
Human Being
Will
Long
Nothing
Conviction
Meditation
Settled
Must
Brought
Purpose
Accomplish
Existence
Human
Being
Which
Stake
Fulfillment
Even
Resist
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
Edward Abbey
Tree
Giant
Shade
Purpose
Provide
Tiny
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
Gary Hamel
Perseverance
Innovation
Sacrifice
Purpose
Inspires
Noble
Stimulates
Encourages
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams
Trust
Nothing
Other
Press
System
Tell
Lies
Purpose
Nobody
Involved
Hired
Up
Than
Where
Agent
Interests
Set
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
James Dean
Life
Society
Charm
Purpose
Does
Hankering
Include
God puts people in our lives on purpose so we can help them succeed and help them become all He created them to be. Most people will not reach their full potential without somebody else believing in them.
Joel Osteen
God
People
Will
Somebody
Become
Else
Our
Our Lives
Potential
Purpose
He
Puts
Reach
Most
Without
Succeed
Them
Created
Full
Full Potential
Help
Lives
Believing
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.
Mary Kay Ash
Life
You
My Life
Live
Aiming
Our
Way
Our Lives
Say
Must
Someone
Purpose
Know
She
Goal
Die
Where
Theme
Such A Way
Lives
Cared
The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics.
Paul Polman
Work
Hard Work
You
Human Being
Passion
Ethics
About
Purpose
Driven
Leaders
Also
Always
Same
Human
Being
Skills
Hard
Deeper
Basic
Load more quotes
No more purpose quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Able
About
Always
Been