Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Purpose

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Brooks, Garth

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

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

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

Allen, James

10.

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

Thurber, James

11.

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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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

18.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

19.

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

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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 one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

27.

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

28.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

31.

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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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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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.

34.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

35.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

40.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

41.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.