Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Socrates

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

Brown, Les

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

12.

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

13.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

20.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

21.

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

22.

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

Gide, Andre

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

26.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

28.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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

30.

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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Proverb

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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

41.

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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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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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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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.

45.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

46.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.