Motivational Quotes

Purpose

One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Allen, James

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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]

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

Thurber, James

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

Brown, Les

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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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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 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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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 secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

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

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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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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

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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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What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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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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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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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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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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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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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

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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