Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Simonides

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Simonides

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

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

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

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

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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

18.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

25.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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

Proverb

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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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

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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

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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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