Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Purpose

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Allen, James

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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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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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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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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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Gide, Andre

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

Socrates

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Proverb

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thurber, James

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

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo