Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brooks, Garth

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Ziglar, Zig

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 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

11.

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

12.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

13.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

14.

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

15.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

17.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

21.

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

Robbins, Anthony

22.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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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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

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Brown, Les

29.

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

30.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

31.

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

Buddha

32.

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

33.

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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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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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.

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

40.

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]

Bible

41.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

42.

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

Proverb

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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.