Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Purpose

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Bible

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Halas, George

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

10.

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

Socrates

11.

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

Martyn, Henry

12.

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

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

20.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

21.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

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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.

33.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

39.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

40.

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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

44.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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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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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

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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

Bible

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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