Motivational Quotes

Purpose

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Seneca

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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 soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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]

Bible

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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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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Casals, Pablo