Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

- Hudgins, Ken

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

Bible

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

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

Martyn, Henry

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Gide, Andre

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

30.

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

Brown, Les

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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

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

Casals, Pablo

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Buddha

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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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