Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Simonides

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Robbins, Anthony

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Thurber, James

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

10.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Sharpman, Al

12.

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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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

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Mayes, Charles

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

22.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Allen, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb

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

33.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

34.

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

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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

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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]

Bible

37.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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