Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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

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

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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

27.

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

28.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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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

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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

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.