Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

Wieder, Marcia

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Buddha

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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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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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

25.

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

Proverb

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

31.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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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]

Bible

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Allen, James

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

41.

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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Gide, Andre

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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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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von