Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Sharpman, Al

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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

11.

What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

12.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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

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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.

25.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

29.

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

Socrates

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

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Gide, Andre

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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