Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Griffith, Nanci

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Bible

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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