Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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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Best Quotes about Purpose

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Bible

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

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

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wieder, Marcia

12.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

13.

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

Seneca

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Proverb

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Gide, Andre