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I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy

Power

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Immanuel Kant

Action

Purpose

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

Ashley Judd

Purpose

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.