Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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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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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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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Casals, Pablo

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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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

Socrates

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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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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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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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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Proverb

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.