Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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]

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Best Quotes about Purpose

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gide, Andre

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

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 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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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

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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

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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]

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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 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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Allen, James

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Socrates

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

Mayes, Charles

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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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

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Robbins, Anthony

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