Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

- Winkworth

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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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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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thurber, James

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

Eliot, George

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Brooks, Garth