Motivational Quotes

Purpose

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Brown, Les

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

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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

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

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Allen, James

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Casals, Pablo

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Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Socrates

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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]