Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Seneca

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Les

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mayes, Charles

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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]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

28.

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Sharpman, Al

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Thurber, James

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.