6,483 Quotes About Purpose

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

God made you on purpose, for a purpose

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.