Motivational Quotes

Purpose

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Purpose

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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