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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you...

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Quote by George S. Patton about people, purpose, contentment, need

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about liberty, purpose, conscience, humanity, rules, voice, wish, law, society, man

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...

Quote by Ron Paul about privacy, purpose, society, need

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy...

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Quote by Norman Vincent Peale about purpose, happiness, mind, contentment

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and...

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

Quote by Stuart Pearce about purpose, football, contentment

Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and...

Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to move compassion in the living.

Quote by John Pearson about life

As to the first, I do not know that I have done very much myself to promote fraternity between nations but I do know that there can be no more important purpose for any man's activity or interests.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about activity, purpose, nation, man

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is...

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.

Quote by Mike Pence about law, purpose

The best teamwork comes from men who are working...

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

Quote by James Cash Penney about opinion, purpose, man

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of taste.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of taste.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about beauty, ambition, purpose

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the...

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces, but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Quote by Richard Burton about friendship, life

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Quote by Erich Fromm about love, objects, reason, human imperfections, world, man

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling...

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Quote by Charles Du Bos about joy, emotions, purpose

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you...

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about purpose, spirit, contentment, life

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Quote by Walt Disney about film, influence

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Quote by Walt Whitman about god

At the Curie Institute, one of the highest goals for a physicist, I found myself empty. Beaten up by disbelief, I kept going because of inertia, which my soul rejected.

Quote by Ernesto Sabato about work, purpose, soul

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to...

Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Quote by Tori Amos about purpose, contentment

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put...

Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about success

Every object and being in the universe is a jar...

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin.

Quote by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi about philosophy, beauty, wisdom, being

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