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

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.

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

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.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

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You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Brown, Les

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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 good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Casals, Pablo

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Proverb