Motivational Quotes

Purpose

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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.

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Gide, Andre

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

19.

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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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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]

Bible

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Brooks, Garth

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