Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

- Carmichael, Amy

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brown, Les

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

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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

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

Martyn, Henry

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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

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]

Bible

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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]

Bible

38.

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

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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