Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Brooks, Garth

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

10.

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

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

14.

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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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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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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 of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

33.

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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

48.

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

Mayes, Charles