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

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

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Halas, George

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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 whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Martyn, Henry

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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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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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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Brown, Les

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thurber, James

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

Brown, Les

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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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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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