Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Socrates

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

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

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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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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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.

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

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

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Martyn, Henry

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Thurber, James

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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]

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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Sharpman, Al

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