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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Martyn, Henry

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Allen, James

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Brown, Les

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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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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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]

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip