Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Morgan, Arthur E.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Craig Mary

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

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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.

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

Seneca

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Buddha

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

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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.

Bible

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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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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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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

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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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.