Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

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

Brown, Les

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Thurber, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gide, Andre

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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.