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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, 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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Proverb

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

Bible

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken