Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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 presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

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.

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Proverb

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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

14.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Eliot, George

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brown, Les

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People should follow their own energy.