Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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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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Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

Redfield, James

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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]

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brown, Les

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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

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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 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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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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]

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von