Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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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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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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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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]

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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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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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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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Proverb