Tenacious of his purpose. [ Motto ]
As good do nothing as to no purpose. [ Proverb ]
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it. [ Shakespeare ]
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
Every one is witty for his own purpose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I wonder did you ever count
The value of one human fate;
Or sum the infinite amount
Of one heart's treasure, and the weight
Of life's one venture, and the whole
Concentrate purpose of a soul. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
Born merely for the purpose of digestion. [ Bruyere ]
Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of Nature
Shake my fell purpose. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]
Overdoing is nothing doing to the purpose. [ Proverb ]
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect. [ William Shakespeare ]
To pour the fresh instruction over the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast. [ Thomson ]
Stung by straitness of our life, made strait
On purpose to make sweet the life at large. [ Browning ]
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. [ Earl Of Beaconsfield ]
To be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. [ Dr. Johnson ]
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
At fifty, chides his infamous delay.
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve.
Resolves - and re-resolves; then dies the same. [ Young ]
Better say nothing, than nothing to the purpose. [ Proverb ]
Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
A wise man need not blush for changing his purpose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There is purpose in pain; otherwise it were devilish. [ Owen Meredith ]
Do not cry out to no purpose (don't bark at the moon). [ French Proverb ]
Said to no purpose; irrelevant to the question at issue.
You may bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution. [ Law Writ ]
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [ Tacitus ]
He that knows how to waste finds everything to his purpose. [ Proverb ]
Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. [ J. G. Holland ]
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all? [ S. T. Coleridge ]
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world. [ Froude ]
We never deceive for a good purpose; knavery adds malice to falsehood. [ Bruyere ]
To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness. [ Fichte ]
I madly take to arms; but have not wit enough to use them to any purpose. [ Virgil ]
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. [ Southey ]
To some purpose is that man wise who gains his wisdom at another's expense. [ Plautus ]
To no more purpose, than it would be to knock one's heels against the ground. [ Proverb ]
It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth. [ William Mountford ]
The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield. [ Lillo ]
Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down - vast monument of strength. [ Milton ]
He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low. [ Collier ]
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual? [ Pliny ]
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. [ South ]
The Golden Rule Of Three.
Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Have a purpose is life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you. [ Carlyle ]
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose. Labor is life. [ Carlyle ]
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. [ Milton ]
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. [ William Shakespeare ]
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws, of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
What are you worth today? Not in money, but in brains, heart, purpose, character? Tell yourself the truth about yourself. [ George H. Hepworth ]
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him. [ Addison ]
Dost thou think that there is little difference whether thou dost a thing from the heart, as nature suggests, or with a purpose? [ Terence ]
Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. [ Miss Edgeworth ]
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. [ Johnson ]
I take the official oath today with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution by any hypercritical rules. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived. [ Lord Clarendon ]
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. [ Sir W. Temple ]
I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. [ George Eliot ]
Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life. [ Milton ]
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tyrant. [ Horace ]
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Twenty people can gain money for one who can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never how much do they make,
but to what purpose do they spend.
[ John Ruskin ]
She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]
A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]
Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. [ G. H. Lewes ]
A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but that slight actions may help it, and may be so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God. [ Ruskin ]
If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]
Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?
. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]
The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward, to his object - this is eloquence, or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence - it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action. [ Webster ]
Nominate or Name? To nominate is to mention for a specific purpose. To name is to mention for a general purpose. Persons only are nominated; things, as well as persons, are named. To be nominated is a public act; to be named is generally private. To be nominated is always an honor; to be named may, according to circumstances, be either honorable or dishonorable. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result, [ John Mason Good ]
Posture or Attitude? Each of these words has its appropriate place, and one should not be misapplied for the other. Posture is the mode of placing the body, and may be either natural or assumed. Attitude is always assumed, and is intended to display some grace of the body, or some affection or purpose of the mind. Postures, when natural, accommodate themselves to the convenience of the body; when assumed they may be either serious or ridiculous. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]