Quotes with purpose

Quotes 81 till 100 of 279.

  • Alfred Nobel I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Ronald Reagan I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Mary Corelli I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
    Mary Corelli
    British writer (1855 - 1924)
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  • Jonathan Swift I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Hubert Humphrey I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our capacity to carry out our purpose.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Beck I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • George Eliot I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Camilo Jose Cela Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
    Camilo Jose Cela
    Spanish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1989) (1916 - 2002)
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  • Billy Collins If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bill Clinton If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
    The Clinton Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches with Commentary
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Koestler If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Bill Bennett If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.
    Bill Bennett
    Canadian politician (1932 - 2015)
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  • Bruce Nauman In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Ovid It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • John Ruskin It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • William Shakespeare It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • C. J. Mahaney It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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