Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Halas, George

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Martyn, Henry

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.

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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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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Brown, Les

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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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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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]

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

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

Seneca

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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