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Purpose

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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.

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Simonides

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, 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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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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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pep without purpose is piffle.