Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Les

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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 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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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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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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]

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von