Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Purpose

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Bible

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

Brooks, Garth

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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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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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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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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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

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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.

21.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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

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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 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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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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Mayes, Charles

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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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Casals, Pablo

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sharpman, Al

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.