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

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

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Griffith, Nanci

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

Thurber, James

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

12.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Brown, Les

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

31.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

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

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

42.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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