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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

18.

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

Munro, Barry

19.

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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

24.

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

Craig Mary

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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

28.

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

Seneca

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

Socrates

30.

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

31.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

33.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

Proverb

43.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo