Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Craig Mary

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Munro, Barry

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

10.

To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

11.

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

12.

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

13.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

14.

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

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

18.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

19.

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

20.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Brooks, Garth

24.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Seneca

27.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

28.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

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.

30.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

31.

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.

32.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

33.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

34.

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

Mayes, Charles

35.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

40.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

41.

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.

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

43.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

44.

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

45.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

Martyn, Henry

47.

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

Craig Mary

48.

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