Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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.

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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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 see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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]

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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