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

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

Brown, Les

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

Moody, Dwight L.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Halas, George

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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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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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

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

Casals, Pablo

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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

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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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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