Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Brooks, Garth

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Buddha

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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thurber, James

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington