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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Brooks, Garth

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Mayes, Charles

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Wieder, Marcia

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, 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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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

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

32.

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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Seneca

49.

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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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von