Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Gide, Andre

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mayes, Charles

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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]

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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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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]

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Buddha

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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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.

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Martyn, Henry

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brown, Les

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.