Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Simonides

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

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

Sharpman, Al

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

11.

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

Brown, Les

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

Craig Mary

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Buddha

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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

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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Halas, George

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

Proverb

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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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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.

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Allen, James

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

Bible

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von