Motivational Quotes

Purpose

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Allen, James

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

Proverb

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

Brooks, Garth

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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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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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

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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 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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ziglar, Zig

40.

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

Seneca

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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]

Bible

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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