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

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Munro, Barry

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Allen, James

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Simonides

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

32.

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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sharpman, Al

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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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.