Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Martyn, Henry

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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 see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Sharpman, Al

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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 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

21.

The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Brown, Les

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

46.

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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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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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

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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