Motivational Quotes

Purpose

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Purpose

Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

26.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

28.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Brown, Les

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