Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Brooks, Garth

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

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

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Seneca

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Socrates

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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