Franz Kafka Quotes, Ice Quotes, Purpose Quotes

The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Courage Quotes , Purpose Quotes

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Purpose Quotes , May Quotes

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Brain Quotes , Purpose Quotes

Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Evil Quotes , Purpose Quotes

The sum of the whole is this: walk and b« happy! walk and be healthy. The best of all ways to lengthen ourdays, is notas Mr. Thomas Moore has it, " ]To steal a few hours from night, my love;" but with leave, be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Healthy Quotes , Purpose Quotes

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Purpose Quotes

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Purpose Quotes

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Purpose Quotes , Sake Quotes

When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

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Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Victory Quotes , Purpose Quotes

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Purpose Quotes , Intention Quotes

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Political Quotes , Purpose Quotes