Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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]

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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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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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.

Bible

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Socrates

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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

Brown, Les