Motivational Quotes

Purpose

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Purpose

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 people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Sharpman, Al

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

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

Socrates

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Foss, Sam Walter

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Brown, Les

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.