Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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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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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Brown, Les

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Carnegie, Dale

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Proverb

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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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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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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

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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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