Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Socrates

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Proverb

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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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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Gide, Andre

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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Sharpman, Al

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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