Motivational Quotes

Purpose

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Purpose

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Wieder, Marcia

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mayes, Charles

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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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Craig Mary

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

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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

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

Brooks, Garth

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 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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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.