Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Simonides

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Martyn, Henry

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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

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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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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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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard