Motivational Quotes

Purpose

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Purpose

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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.

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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]

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

Shakespeare, William

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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 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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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