Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Ustinov, Peter

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Mayes, Charles

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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]

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

49.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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