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

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

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

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

Thurber, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

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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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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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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]

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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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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 mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]

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