Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Robbins, Anthony

15.

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

16.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

17.

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

18.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

19.

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

20.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Allen, James

24.

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

25.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

26.

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

Craig Mary

27.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

30.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

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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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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

Socrates

39.

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

40.

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

Picasso, Pablo

41.

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

Wieder, Marcia

42.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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