Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thurber, James

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ustinov, Peter

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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]

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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]

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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Allen, James

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

Socrates

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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

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

Halas, George

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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]

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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