Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Allen, James

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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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 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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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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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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]

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Martyn, Henry

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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.