Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

- Henry, Philip

Best Quotes about Purpose

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Proverb

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Socrates

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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

Craig Mary

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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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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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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 purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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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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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Martyn, Henry

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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