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

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

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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

Thurber, James

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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?