Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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]

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb

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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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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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 only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mayes, Charles

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.