Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Allen, James

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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

Halas, George

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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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

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Proverb

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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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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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Seneca

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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 are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Sharpman, Al

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin