Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

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

Craig Mary

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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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 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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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]

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Socrates

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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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

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

Allen, James

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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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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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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale