Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Brooks, Garth

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

10.

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

Mayes, Charles

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

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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16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

19.

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

Casals, Pablo

20.

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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

25.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

26.

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

Ustinov, Peter

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Craig Mary

29.

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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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

31.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

35.

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

36.

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

Sharpman, Al

37.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

40.

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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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]

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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