Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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.

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Mayes, Charles

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Munger, Thornton T.

11.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

12.

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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Proverb

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

21.

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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

23.

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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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

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

Casals, Pablo

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

42.

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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

47.

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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken