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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Gordon, Arthur

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

Martyn, Henry

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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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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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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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]

Bible

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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 have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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