Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Purpose

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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.

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

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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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

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

Proverb

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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

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

Buddha

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

Bible

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

34.

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

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth