Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Purpose

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

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

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Seneca

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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 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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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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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

44.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Allen, James

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

Casals, Pablo

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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

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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]