Purpose
That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
Proposal to another; discourse.
Instance; example.
To set forth; to bring forward.
To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
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Purpose Quotations
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald Reagan
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
Ronald Reagan
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
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Purpose Translations
purpose in Afrikaans is doel, oogmerk
purpose in Dutch is doelwit, honk, doel, doelstelling, wit
purpose in German is absicht, Absicht {f}, Zweck {m}, Zweck
purpose in Italian is scopo, proposito
purpose in Latin is consilium, finis, propositum
purpose in Portuguese is alvo, finalidade
purpose in Spanish is finalidad, fin, conato
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