Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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.

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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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Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sharpman, Al

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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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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 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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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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

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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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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.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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.

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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