Motivational Quotes

Purpose

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Purpose

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

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

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Seneca

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

18.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Brooks, Garth

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Proverb

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Moody, Dwight L.