Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Wizard, Her Majesty's

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Brooks, Garth

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Allen, 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.

Bible

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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

Martyn, Henry

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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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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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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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

31.

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

Thurber, James

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Socrates

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

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Proverb

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?