Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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]

Bible

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Sharpman, Al

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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Foss, Sam Walter

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

Picasso, Pablo

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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 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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson