Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.
The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.
The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.
Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.
I want to hold onto that because I think every kid when they dream about playing basketball, they don't dream about being a role player. They dream about being the man. I have that position in Toronto and to give that up and go somewhere else to be an addition would kinda defeat the purpose of my dreams.
Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare. ' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
One needs to have some sense of purpose. Next, you need to have a vision that grows out of that purpose.
What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?
A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose.
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.