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

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

14.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

15.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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

18.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

21.

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

Mayes, Charles

22.

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

Brown, Les

23.

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

24.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

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

27.

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

Martyn, Henry

28.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

29.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

33.

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

Sharpman, Al

34.

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

Simonides

35.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

37.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

44.

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

Halas, George

49.

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

50.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin