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Purpose

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

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Brown, Les

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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]

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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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