Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Allen, James

Best Quotes about Purpose

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Brown, Les

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Cowper, William

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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

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

18.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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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

25.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

26.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Sharpman, Al

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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 have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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

Allen, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von