Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Purpose

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Casals, Pablo

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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]

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

Martyn, Henry

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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.

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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

Brown, Les

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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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