Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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]

Bible

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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.

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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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 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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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

29.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

32.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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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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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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

Proverb

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

39.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.