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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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Thurber, James

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Cowper, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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.

30.

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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

35.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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

Proverb

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

49.

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 see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry