Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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

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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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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mayes, Charles

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Allen, James

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.