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

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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

Craig Mary

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Eliot, George

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