Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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 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

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

Gide, Andre

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Martyn, Henry

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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