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

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

Bible

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

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

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.

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

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

11.

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

Munro, Barry

12.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

13.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

14.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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

18.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

Redfield, James

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

31.

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

Martyn, Henry

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

37.

For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin