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

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

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

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

Mayes, Charles

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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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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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

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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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 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 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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sharpman, Al

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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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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