#purpose

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

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Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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