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

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Brooks, Garth

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

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Sharpman, Al

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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 on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James

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

Brown, Les

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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.