Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Brown, Les

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Gide, Andre

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

10.

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

11.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

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

13.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

14.

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

Allen, James

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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

16.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Ziglar, Zig

22.

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.

23.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

24.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

28.

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]

Bible

29.

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.

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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

31.

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

32.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Martyn, Henry

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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 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

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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

42.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

44.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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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

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von