Quotes
Quotes about Purpose
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.
Infirm of purpose!
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.
I want that glib and oily art,
To speak and purpose not.
Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Execute their airy purposes.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:
Who does the best his circumstance allows
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
The red-letter days now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,--a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The Almighty has his own purposes.
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
A marciful Providence fashioned us holler
O' purpose that we might our principles swaller.
God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep,
But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!
And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,
Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit,
And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap.
I purpose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
Plato says, "'T is to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muses;" and Aristotle says "that no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of folly."
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
