Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Purpose

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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

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.

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.

One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

Bible

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

Martyn, Henry

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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 just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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.

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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Buddha

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary