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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier. -- Clarence Clemons
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. -- Anne Sullivan
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. -- Chris Hedges
The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money. -- Theodore Levitt
The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost. -- Deepak Chopra
Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime. -- Deepak Chopra
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do. -- Deepak Chopra
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. -- David O. McKay
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought. -- Alan Cohen
Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise. -- Konosuke Matsushita
There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else. -- Chuck Hillig
The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day. -- Tony Robbins
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose. -- Marlo Morgan
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose. -- Bryant H. McGill
There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity." -- John Maxwell Taylor
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Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow. -- Bob Proctor
Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity. -- Bryant H. McGill
if you will always give great ears to the cacophony of the masses instead of the solemn voice of your true purpose, you will never leave a distinctive footprint -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth. -- Vaclav Havel
Focus on your true purpose in life and stop focusing on other people's flaws, mistakes and failures. The fulfillment of your positive purpose on earth truly needs your undivided attention. -- Edmond Mbiaka
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong. -- Christian D. Larson
You will find your way. Don't be afraid of getting stuck in some of the necessary compromises. Learn everything you can from each experience, even if something seems irrelevant to your true purpose. -- Wendy Lustbader
A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be. -- Eric Butterworth
Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being. -- Martin Firrell
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. -- Anne Sullivan
Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible. -- Malcolm X
Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people. -- Annie Ernaux
In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future. -- Randy Weston
Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness. -- Blaise Pascal
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. -- Frederic Bastiat
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. -- John Mason Brown
The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world. -- Bill Drayton
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. -- Adoniram Judson
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. -- William Cowper
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! -- Robert Walpole
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise. -- Alan Moore
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. -- William Henry Harrison
It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God. -- C. J. Mahaney
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. -- Jonathan Mayhew
This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. -- John L. Lewis
How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire. -- Simon Greenleaf
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. -- George W. Bush
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form. -- Martha Beck
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commercial purposes, I think you should give someone a dividend. They make money, then you make money. It should be an investment, whereas I think Kickstarter's true purpose is raising money for things that are in and of themselves justifying. -- Kurt Braunohler
The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success. -- Debasish Mridha
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose. -- Caroline Emelia Stephen
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. -- Kate Morton
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. -- Ronald Reagan
The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects. -- Aristotle
When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose. -- Adyashanti
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. -- George Bernard Shaw
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State. -- Edward Abbey
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being. -- D. H. Lawrence
Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life. -- Spiros Zodhiates
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. -- David O. McKay
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself. -- Karl Jaspers
No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness. -- Amish Tripathi
A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. -- Michael Josephson
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure. -- Robert Updegraff
The real purpose of est was to create space for people to participate in life - to experience true space and freedom in life. -- Werner Erhard
It is not true that I contemplated going to London or obtaining a visa. The purpose of such rumours is to tarnish [my reputation]. -- Osama bin Laden
A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are but with the way they ought to be. -- Joseph Pulitzer
For, what is the purpose of true love, other than to rescue another from one's self? Why is that not the first thing we look for? -- Shannon L. Alder
To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' -- Benedict Joseph Labre
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' -- Benedict Joseph Labre
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger. -- Mark Kurlansky
True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going. -- Rita Ora
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose. -- Denis Johnston
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit. -- Leonard Cohen
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. -- Josh Billings
The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God. -- Rick Warren
If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future. Why would anyone be happy with less? -- Mike Klepper
If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future. Why would anyone be happy with less~? -- Mike Klepper
A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose! -- Ayn Rand
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling. -- Francis Cornford

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