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

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.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Mayes, Charles

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

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

Proverb

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

Foss, Sam Walter

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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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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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

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Socrates

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Martyn, Henry

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's