Purpose quotes

Discover the true essence of life with our purpose category, exploring inspiring quotes that ignite meaning and motivation in your journey.

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

- Alfred Marshall

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

- Mitch Daniels

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

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

- Andy Goldsworthy

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

- Mark Knopfler

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

- Henry Ward Beecher

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

- Richard Grant

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

- Tom Glazer

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

- David Livingstone

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

- Bertrand Russell

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

- Morihei Ueshiba

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

- Vinoba Bhave

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

- Abraham Clark

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

- Herbert Hoover

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

- Curtis Mayfield

After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.

- Charles Lawrence

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

- A. R. Ammons

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

- Nikita Khrushchev

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

- Carl Jung

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