Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Allen, James

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brown, Les

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

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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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