Motivational Quotes

Purpose

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

- Thurber, James

Best Quotes about Purpose

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated 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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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

Casals, Pablo

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

Allen, James

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Robbins, Anthony

29.

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

Seneca

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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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

44.

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

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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Martyn, Henry