Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

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.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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

Bible

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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 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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

44.

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

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.