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

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

Proverb

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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

Socrates

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Mayes, Charles

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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.

11.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

12.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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

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

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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

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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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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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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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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

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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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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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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sharpman, Al

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

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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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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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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.