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

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

Brown, Les

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

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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 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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

O'Connor, Mary

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

Martyn, Henry

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Casals, Pablo

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bible

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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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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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.

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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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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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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

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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Eliot, George