Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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.

39.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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