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Purpose Quotes


"God called you because He has implicit confidence in you."


"Your goal in life should be to produce concrete product."


"It is not the purpose of the ad or commercial to make the reader or listener say, 'My what a clever ad.' It is the purpose of advertising to make the reader say, 'I believe I'll buy one when I'm shopping tomorrow'."


"The purpose of random testing is not to catch, punish, or expose students who use drugs, but to save their lives and discover abuse problems early so that students can grow up and learn in a drug-free environment."


"Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well."


"Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works."


"The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery."


"A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines."


"Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose."


"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."


"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it."


"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."


"I'm fulfilling my calling no matter what is happening and against whom."


"Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it."


"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."


"What if all I ever wanted out of everything I have been chasing was not the thing itself but to be happy, to feel good?Heidi C."


"Divine mission. Divine strength. Divine accomplishment."


"I could give up, it's the easiest optionBut what would I achieve? Many sleepless nights holding regretOf all I didn't seek, That option will never exist to me; My dreams are far too real, Down the hard road I findMy place in the world; the closest To home Ill ever feel."


"You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another."


"Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way."


"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."


"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."


"To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?"


"When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose."
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