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
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
Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?
The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]
Bible
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
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Buscaglia, Leo
The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.
Gschwandtner, Gerhard
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
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
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
Pilgrim, Peace
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
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Irving, Washington
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
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
I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
Martyn, Henry
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
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Thurber, James
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Foss, Sam Walter
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
Craig Mary
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
Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau, Henry David
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
Disraeli, Benjamin
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Casals, Pablo
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.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Frankl, Viktor E.
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
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]
Bible
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
The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
Tallentyre, S. G.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Eliot, George
It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
Picasso, Pablo
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
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
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Carlyle, Thomas
You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.
Munro, Barry
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Allen, James
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
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
Halas, George
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Tolstoy, Count Leo
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
Wieder, Marcia
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
Shakespeare, William
Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
Henry, Philip
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