Purpose

No purpose? No goal in life? Check these proverbs and quotes about purpose and goals.

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'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.
Richard Dawkins

Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
Richard Dawkins

By exposing the absence of purpose in the laws governing the universe, science forces us to take responsibility for the welfare of ourselves, our species, and our planet.
Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
Thomas S. Monson

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
Sheryl Adams

Goals help you channel your energy into action.
Les Brown

I had a deadly shot when I played back on my own goal.
Godfried Bomans

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing had so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
Daniel Dennett

Life is like a game of soccer. You need goals. If there are no goals in your life then you can’t win.
(unknown author)

My goal in life is to survive until I am dead.
Minkukel

One way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking

Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.
Amy Morin

Soccer is not just about scoring goals. It’s about winning.
(unknown author)

The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state.
Karl Marx

The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
Robert C. Dodds

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
Melody Beattie

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
Masanobu Fukuoka

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
Woodrow Wilson

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
Fernando Pessoa

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown

You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals.
(unknown author)




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