Quotes with purpose

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  • Sir Walter Scott It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Atom Egoyan It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Anne Sullivan Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Ben Stein Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Martin Luther King Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Adam Weishaupt 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.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Oscar Wilde Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Luck is tenacity of purpose.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Andy Rooney 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.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • George Halas Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Charles M. Schultz My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.
    Charles M. Schultz
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2000)
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  • Bette Davis My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Elmore Leonard My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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