Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Mayes, Charles

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Allen, James

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Ziglar, Zig

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