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

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

Halas, George

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

Socrates

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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

Craig Mary

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

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Sharpman, Al

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Brown, Les

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Proverb

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von