Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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.