Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Thurber, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brown, Les

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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

27.

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.

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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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]

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas