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

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Cousins, Norman

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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

Socrates

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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.

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

28.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

38.

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

Proverb

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mayes, Charles

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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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