Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Casals, Pablo

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Craig Mary

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, James

13.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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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.

23.

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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Brown, Les

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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.

33.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Sharpman, Al

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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.

36.

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

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

43.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

44.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

45.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

46.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

48.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, L. Ron