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

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.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

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

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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

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.

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

Mayes, Charles

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Proverb

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Brown, Les

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor