As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn’t know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.

Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that will never heal, and for ‘the pangs that tempt the spirit to rebel,’ bringest an assuaging balm; eloquent opium! that with thy potent rhetoric stealest away the purposes of wrath; and to the guilty man, for one night givest back the hopes of his youth, and hands washed pure of blood..

Our purpose is to grow up and become love.

The principle of copyright is this. It is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers. The tax is an exceedingly bad one; it is a tax on one of the most innocent and most salutary of human pleasures; and never let us forget, that a tax on innocent pleasures is a premium on vicious pleasure

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose may tempt aside. Bestow upon us also, O Lord our God, understanding to know you, diligence to seek you, wisdom to find you, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace you; through Jesus Christ our Lord

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority’s ability to harm a minority.

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought

Where the left hemisphere’s relationship with the world is one of reaching out to grasp, and therefore to use, it, the right hemisphere’s appears to be one of reaching out – just that. Without purpose.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence

A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.9.

The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions – initially. And then the business became lucrative.

Why do we need to make the rich richer to make them work harder but make the poor poorer for the same purpose?

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance

We do not exist for ourselves

The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business

Of the 1,223 new medicines developed between 1975 and 1997, just 13 were for tropical diseases. Only four sprang from the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to cure humans. None were found on purpose

In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Your purpose is to be joyful. Your purpose is to live with ease. Your purpose is to surrender to the love of the Universe so you can live a happy life. Accept the purpose of love, and your life will radically change this instant.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing

My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to killc

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

You can’t realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Passion fuels purpose, and purpose fuels success.

Favor comes because, for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress, some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept, there can be no end save victory.

But fame isn’t what gets me out of bed in the morning. It’s purpose.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor’s point of view.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

All successful people, men, and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence, and intelligence until these qualities’ lock in’ to your subconscious mind.

I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker’s mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous presence.

This world of ours was not created to be the testing ground for the perfection of weapons to wipe us out .

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.

Teamwork is neither “good” nor “desirable.” It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

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.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things – to love and be loved.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

Providentially. That is the word. For the fly had not been left behind by accident. No, the hand of Providence was in it. There are no accidents. All things that happen, happen for a purpose. They are foreseen from the beginning of time, they are ordained from the beginning of time.

Everything in life got its purpose, find its reason in every season

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.

You are loved, and your purpose is to love.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player. The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too … Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

The most depraved type of human being is the man without a purpose.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.

I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

The mind is incredible. Once you’ve gained mastery over it, channeling its powers positively for your purposes, you can do anything. I mean anything. The secret is to make your mind work for you not against you. This means constantly being positive. Constantly setting up challenges you can meet either today, next week, or next month. I can’t… should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

Find purpose. The means will follow.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

Don’t be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.

Spoke some things into the universe and they appeared, I say it’s worth it, I won’t say it’s fair. Find your purpose or you wastin’ air

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

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.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose!

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant purpose

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

Each time I thought I had achieved my ‘life’s purpose,’ I discovered it was only another step in my journey.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Leaders are persuing a passion toward a purpose that gives them a sense of destiny.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.

In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet.

We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

The ignited mind of the youth is the most powerful resource on the earth, above the earth, and under the earth.

I think it’s absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don’t think it’s a curse at all.

If you actually do something you love it’s a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.