Quotes with purpose

Quotes 181 till 200 of 279.

• The purpose firm is equal to the deed.

  Edward Young
  British poet (1683 - 1765)
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• The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

  Peter F. Drucker
  American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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• The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

  James Baldwin
  American writer (1924 - 1987)
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• The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

  David Gemmell
  British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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• The purpose of education is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

  Harvard, 14-06-1956

  John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  Harold Rosenberg
  American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one

  Malcolm Forbes
  American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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• The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

  Gloria Steinem
  American feminist writer (1934 - )
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• The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

  Aneurin Bevan
  British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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• The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

  Buzz Aldrin
  American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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• The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
  

  Albert Schweitzer
  German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

  Mortimer J. Adler
  American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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• The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.

  Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
   
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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  German poet (1875 - 1926)
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• The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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• The purpose of man is in action not thought.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

  Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

  June Jordan
  American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

  Peace Pilgrim
  American activist, mystic and pacifist
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Subjects in these quotes:

• dissemination
• historically
• magnificence
• disobedience
• permanently
• experiences

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