Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Seneca

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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

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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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

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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