Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brown, Les

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Mayes, Charles

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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

Socrates

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Proverb

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

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

Brooks, Garth