Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Socrates

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

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Proverb

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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Allen, James

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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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

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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 great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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