Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ustinov, Peter

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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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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

15.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

21.

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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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.

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

Sharpman, Al

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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 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

30.

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

31.

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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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales

33.

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

Mayes, Charles

34.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

37.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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

Picasso, Pablo

40.

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.

41.

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

43.

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]

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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

45.

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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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

47.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Les