Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Hubbard, L. Ron

Best Quotes about Purpose

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales