Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Purpose

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Simonides

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

Brown, Les

What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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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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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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

Casals, Pablo

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Halas, George

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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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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]

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

30.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

31.

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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.