Best Quotes about Purpose
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
Halas, George
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
Brown, Les
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
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
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau, Henry David
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]
Bible
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.
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
Pilgrim, Peace
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
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
Hemingway, Ernest
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.
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]
Bible
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
Craig Mary
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
Sophocles
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Seneca
I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
Diana, Princess of Wales
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
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Irving, Washington
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
Hildebrand, Kenneth
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.
Hildebrand, Kenneth
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
Robbins, Anthony
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Powell, Adam Clayton
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Eliot, George
You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
Wieder, Marcia
There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
Simonides
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
The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
Tallentyre, S. G.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Ustinov, Peter
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
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Allen, James
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.
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
Shaw, George Bernard
He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.
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
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Henry, Philip
Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose.
Proverb
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
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Morgan, Arthur E.
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
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
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
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.
If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.
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