Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Halas, George

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

Allen, James

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Mayes, Charles

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb

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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

25.

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

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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Socrates

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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.