Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Gide, Andre

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

Brown, Les

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

Ustinov, Peter

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

12.

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

Seneca

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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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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

Proverb

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

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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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

33.

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

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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