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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Brown, Les

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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.

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

10.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

11.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

13.

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's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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 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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

19.

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

24.

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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

30.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

35.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Robbins, Anthony

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von