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Purpose Quotes


"The discovery of your life's purpose is your ultimate pathway to an extraordinary life. You were born an original, so quit conforming to the expectations of others."


"The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion."


"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."


"It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens."


"Your purpose distinguishes you from others; not your talent, IQ, race, job, hobbies, or gender, as these are held in common with many others."


"Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it."


"Life was given to us for an assignment."


"The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for."


"Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning."


"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible."


"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it."


"Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree."


"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."


"I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again."


"If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose."


"All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted."


"AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them."


"I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you."


"America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose."


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



"During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines."


"I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose."


"Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose."


"Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish."


"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."


"Those who serve others have purpose. Those who serve themselves are lost."


"Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Don't ever be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly rejected, spat upon and seen as an unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is and then they accept, celebrate and enjoy it."


"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."


"To have a mission is to find your own gift."
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