Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Martyn, Henry

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Allen, James

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

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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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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]

Bible

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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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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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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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.