Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

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

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

Buddha

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

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Thurber, James

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Foss, Sam Walter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Allen, James

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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

Proverb

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

Halas, George

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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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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