Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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

Munro, Barry

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

10.

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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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

19.

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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Thurber, James

22.

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

Seneca

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

28.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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