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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Martyn, Henry

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

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

17.

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

Seneca

18.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

31.

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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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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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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]

Bible

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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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