Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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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

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

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gide, Andre

Pep without purpose is piffle.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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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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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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Socrates

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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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]

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Mayes, Charles

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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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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