Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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.

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

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

Buddha

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

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Bible

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

Simonides

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

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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]

Bible

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mayes, Charles

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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