Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Hildebrand, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Sharpman, Al

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

25.

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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

31.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buddha

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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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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Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis