Motivational Quotes

Purpose

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Ziglar, Zig

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

Pep without purpose is piffle.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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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]

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

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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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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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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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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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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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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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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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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo