Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Purpose

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Eliot, George

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

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

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

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Socrates

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

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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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

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Martyn, Henry

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Buddha

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

Allen, James

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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.