Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Allen, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Craig Mary

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Socrates

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor