Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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.

Best Quotes about Purpose

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

10.

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

11.

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

Buddha

12.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

25.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

26.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

27.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

28.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

29.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

30.

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

31.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

34.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

35.

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.

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

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

38.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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.

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

44.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

45.

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

Eliot, George

46.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

47.

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

Robbins, Anthony

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip