Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Buddha

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

16.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

17.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

30.

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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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 just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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]

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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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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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.

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

Proverb

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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 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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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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