Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Purpose

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Socrates

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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]

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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]

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.