Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Brown, Les

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

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

Thurber, James

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Buddha

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Robbins, Anthony

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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Allen, James

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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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