Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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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

15.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Socrates

17.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

18.

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

19.

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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

27.

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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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Thurber, James

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

46.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

48.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

49.

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

Seneca