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

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Ziglar, Zig

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Brown, Les

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Buddha

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

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

Seneca

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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