Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Thurber, James

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Bible

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Bible

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

Bible

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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

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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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

Munro, Barry

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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 see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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