Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Buddha

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

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

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

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

Bible

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Proverb

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Picasso, Pablo

22.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

28.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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

32.

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

Seneca

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

34.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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