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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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

Halas, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sharpman, Al

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Gordon, Arthur

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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

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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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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 a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

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