Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Purpose

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Stone, W. Clement

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose.

Proverb

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

Eliot, George

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There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Munger, Thornton T.

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Simonides

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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]

Bible

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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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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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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

Redfield, James

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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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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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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fuller, Thomas

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Mayes, Charles

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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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

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor