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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
There’s a time and purpose for being lost. If you don’t judge the being lost you get through it sooner.
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.
My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.
God's concern is for His name, His glory, His people, His unfolding eternal purpose and for His Kingdom.
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?
One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.
I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.
What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Like black, do you? (Cassandra) It serves its purpose. It’s hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)
Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.
The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or for any exploitative purpose.
The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law.
I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.
If you've ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of spirit working through you.
Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose
How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.
We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.
On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.
Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.
We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.
War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.
I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.