Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Purpose

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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

Mayes, Charles

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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

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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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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Seneca

22.

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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Cowper, William

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Ziglar, Zig

36.

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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thurber, James

43.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard