Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Purpose

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

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

Seneca

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

20.

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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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Martyn, Henry

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Proverb

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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor