Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Casals, Pablo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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

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

Bible

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Fuller, Thomas

10.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

11.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

12.

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

Sharpman, Al

13.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

14.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

17.

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

21.

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

22.

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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

25.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

26.

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

27.

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

Picasso, Pablo

28.

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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

32.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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.

34.

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

Allen, James

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

Mayes, Charles

36.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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