Motivational Quotes

Purpose

No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Halas, George

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

Mayes, Charles

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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.

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brooks, Garth

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Martyn, Henry

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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

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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