Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Purpose

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

Halas, George

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Wieder, Marcia

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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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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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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

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Brown, Les

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.