Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wieder, Marcia

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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]

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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]

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

Brown, Les

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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]

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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