Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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

Gide, Andre

10.

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

11.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

18.

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

Fuller, 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

21.

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

22.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

23.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Thurber, James

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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]

Bible

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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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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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 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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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.

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

48.

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard