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

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

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

Bible

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Buddha

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

21.

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

Gide, Andre

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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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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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

35.

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

36.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Proverb

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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor