Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

- Gschwandtner, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Buddha

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Proverb

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Brown, Les

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

25.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Bible

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken