Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Shakespeare, William

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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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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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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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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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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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

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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