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

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

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

Seneca

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gide, Andre

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

Thurber, James

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

10.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

11.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

12.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

26.

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

Brown, Les

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

31.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

32.

What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

33.

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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.

Bible

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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]

Bible

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

Casals, Pablo