Motivational Quotes

Purpose

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

- Patanjali

Best Quotes about Purpose

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Seneca

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Brooks, Garth

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brown, Les

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

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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 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

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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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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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