Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Casals, Pablo

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Socrates

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

25.

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

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Proverb

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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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Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

Bible

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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