Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Purpose

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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

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

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

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

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

Seneca

10.

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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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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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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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

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Buddha

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George