Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Thurber, James

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Ziglar, Zig

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 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

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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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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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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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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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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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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Simonides

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

Brown, Les

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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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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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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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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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]

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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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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George