Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
Purposes Quotes (1644 Quotes)
I'm happy with the kids' effort. We played with emotion and purpose. We want to win, but we can live with this. I feel this is the first time (this season) we've taken a step forward. We walk away disappointed with the loss, but we're not distraught. We'll have plenty of opportunities the rest of the way to keep getting better.
And the next day, an official from the ministry of foreign affairs also contacted Ambassador Dell and conveyed a similar apology. So for our purposes, this incident is closed.
This is part of our responsibility to assist in the non-aviation domain. The whole purpose is that people will not know when we're going to be there or if we are going to be there. It's a preventative approach.
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.
We must support those around the world who are taking risks to advance freedom, justice and democracy -- just as President Reagan did. American policy must be clear and consistent in its purposes, ... And American leaders -- above all the commander in chief -- must be confident in our nation's cause and unwavering until the danger to our people is fully and finally removed.
If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, ... the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them and it is no fault of theirs, if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
The purpose was twofold first for citizen safety, and also to give them suspect information.
We have taken our time on this one because we wanted to make sure we got it right. And the intelligence community, I think, is convinced now that that's the purpose they served.
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
No organization can depend on genius the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform. The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
All the numbers we saw this morning were good for the market's purposes. GDP growth was certainly positive. Maybe there was a little disappointment that jobless claims didn't drop more, which doesn't bode well for next week's monthly unemployment number.
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
A terrorist agenda that very often has no purpose, has no meaning other than to strike out in rage.
Illumination is the purpose of life of the recurring sequence of birth and death.
No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
It is my belief that, if the proper partner were allowed to have control of AOL, shareholder value would be much more greatly enhanced than through a half-hearted joint venture that might only serve the purpose of entrenching management.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
Our college hasn't taken a stand on this issue. Our purpose is just to help students understand different people and different opinions.
That was one of the all-time favorites because we were accused of making the roof leak on purpose. We dont want to win by too much. Lets create a diversion, so we stop the game for an hour. ... yeah, its been a while.
People are supposed to read it, maybe learn a little bit, maybe have a chuckle, and then have an interesting conversation. If that's what we do, we've accomplished our purpose.
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond
I think he did it on purpose, no question about that. I don't know if he was trying to hurt him.
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
I have no problem talking to anybody so long as it helps the purpose of peace.
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
I think all directors should at least take acting classes and see what an actor goes through. And I think all actors should try to direct and see what a director has to go through - like we don't do it on purpose to take three hours to light the scene. I'm not thrilled with it either but that's what it takes.
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
Earning money cannot be the purpose of education. Acquiring good qualities can be the only purpose of education.
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May Time disgrace, and wretched minutes kill.
He apologized for it about 20 million times. He's a good guy. I know he would never do anything like that on purpose.
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.
Brotherhood is not only the engagement of serving one another it is the purpose of bettering one another.
The biotech industry is seeking to minimize human life for economic purposes, ... They're trying to redefine when life begins.
The Governments policy is to reduce the wage bill to free resources for development purposes.
Indeed, the greatest blessing that can follow the death of those we love is reconciliation. Without it there is no peace. But with it come quiet thoughts and quickened memories. And what else shall a man do except become reconciled What purpose does he serve by fighting what he cannot touch or by brooding upon what he cannot change We have to trust the Lord God for so many things, and it is but one thing more to trust him in the issues of life and death, and to accept the fact that his plans and promises and purposes transcend the bounds of this world and of this life. With such faith the years are kind, and peace and reconciliation do come to those who have laid to rest their loved ones - who, even in death, are not far removed from us, and of whom our Father in heaven will be mindful until we meet again even as we are mindful of our own children. Bitter grief without reconciliation serves no good purpose. Death comes to all of us, but so does life everlasting.
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.
These latest neutrals take their inspiration from the cosmetics counter in both color and purpose.
If we think for one minute that this is for educational purposes, we're kidding ourselves. I can't help but think that this is just a foot in the door to circumvent the veto.
There is concern by us and certainly by many others that this board is subject to capture. There is concern that it's subject to capture by a small group of corporations, to a country, to an advocacy group bent on changing the way the Internet works for its own purposes.
There is a heightened level of expectation and fear that's evident. And that, after all, is the purpose of terrorism ... to create terror.
When you play a tight game like that, hopefully you learn from it. We got comfortable, we got relaxed. Instead of going up there and thinking about team swings we were taking individual swings. We weren't really up there with a purpose until they put a little pressure on us.
Nuclear energy is for peaceful purposes. We are not the ones developing atomic bombs, it's others who do that. We are not the ones who launch atomic bombs,
There is no requirement with respect to the nationality of who owns a brokerage. Individual brokers and salespeople must be Canadian residents, but the ownership of the brokerage is not regulated from the perspective of the nationality or location of its owners. The Act 's purpose is protection of the public, it is not intended to regulate foreign investment.
One of the main purposes is to explain why the studies found in the literature have such divergent results.
The E.U. recognizes the inalienable right of NPT parties to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.