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

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

12.

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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

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

Simonides

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Proverb

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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]

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brooks, Garth