Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Hammarskjold, Dag

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

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

Brown, Les

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

Allen, James

11.

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

Buddha

12.

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

Seneca

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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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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.

15.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

16.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

18.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

24.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

29.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Socrates

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

37.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mayes, Charles

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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]

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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

46.

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

Bible

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

49.

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

Gide, Andre

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas