Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Proverb

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

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Brown, Les

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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]

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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]

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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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Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Mayes, Charles

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Socrates

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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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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore