#purpose

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#everything #given #god #good #great

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. ↗

— Karl Marx

#earn #live #making #making money #means

It's nice to feel that you have a purpose. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#nice #purpose #you

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#businesses #exist #few #how #i

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

#arguing #bad #either #his way #may

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#cannot #column #falling #his #hold

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#destination #having #hope #plot #purpose

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#become #begin #empty #filled #later

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#bridges #conceivable #day #each #end