Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Martyn, Henry

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brown, Les

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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

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Buddha

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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 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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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Socrates

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

39.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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

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