Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Brown, Les

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

27.

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

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

Proverb

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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.

Bible

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest