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Purpose

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Casals, Pablo

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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

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The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Hoffer, Eric