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

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

Brooks, Garth

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

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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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]

Bible

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Proverb

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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]

Bible

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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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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

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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