Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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.

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

Socrates

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gide, Andre

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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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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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

28.

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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Thurber, James

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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