Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

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

Bible

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

Picasso, Pablo

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.

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

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Thurber, James

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

Brooks, Garth

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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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.

Bible

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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 great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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