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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Gide, Andre

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

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

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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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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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You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

29.

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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

50.

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