Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Purpose

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Pep without purpose is piffle.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Bible

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Socrates

10.

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

Gide, Andre

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

12.

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

Craig Mary

13.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

14.

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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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

17.

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

Casals, Pablo

18.

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

19.

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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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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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

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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.

23.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

24.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

26.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

27.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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]

Bible

29.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

44.

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

45.

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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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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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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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

49.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Sharpman, Al