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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Allen, James

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Seneca

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Picasso, Pablo

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

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

Shakespeare, William

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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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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.

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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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