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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Buddha

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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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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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]

Bible

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, 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]

Bible

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.