Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Proverb

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Allen, James

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

Thurber, James

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Socrates

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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

Sharpman, Al

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David