Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Allen, James

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

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Brooks, Garth

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