Motivational Quotes

Purpose

People should follow their own energy.

- Schultz, Will

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

Buddha

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

Brown, Les

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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

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

Gide, Andre

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Thurber, James

29.

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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 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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo