Motivational Quotes

Purpose

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Purpose

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Wieder, Marcia

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Halas, George

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

Martyn, Henry

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les