Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Craig Mary

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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 crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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