#purpose

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#compose #decent #differences #how #intellect

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. ↗

— George Eliot

#failure #fear #hugging #only #purpose

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#clear #country #entitled #purpose #safety

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ↗

— George Eliot

#behind #best #failure #fear #i

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#carried #concerning #critics #did #done

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. ↗

— Alexander John Ellis

#accurate #cent #nearest #practical #practical purposes

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#football #football players #learn #little #making

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#confidence #democratic #democratization #desire #exists

The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#conducive #creating #democracies #democratic #encouraging

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#basic needs #dependent #government #increasingly #large