Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Brooks, Garth

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

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

29.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

39.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

44.

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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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

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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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

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

Brown, Les