Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

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

Proverb

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

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

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

17.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

18.

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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

20.

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

21.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

22.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Brown, Les

25.

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.

26.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

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

Brooks, Garth

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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

31.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

33.

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

Wieder, Marcia

34.

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

35.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

36.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

43.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Mayes, Charles

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

47.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

48.

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