Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Brooks, Garth

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

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

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb

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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.

23.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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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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

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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara 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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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

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

41.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.