Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Ustinov, Peter

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Brown, Les

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

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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 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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bible

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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