Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

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

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

Craig Mary

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

Socrates

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Buddha

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Mayes, Charles

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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 great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Foss, Sam Walter

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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Brown, Les

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

Allen, James