Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Mayes, Charles

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

To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

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

Picasso, Pablo

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

14.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Craig Mary

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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.

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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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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

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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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