Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Purpose

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Cowper, William

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Robbins, Anthony

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Griffith, Nanci

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.

Brown, Les

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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Foss, Sam Walter

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

17.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Hoffer, Eric

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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Cousins, Norman

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

Bible

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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates