Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brown, Les

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Martyn, Henry

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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Proverb

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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