Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Socrates

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Sharpman, Al

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Cousins, Norman

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wieder, Marcia

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Proverb

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

28.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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