Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gide, Andre

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

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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]

Bible

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Seneca

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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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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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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