Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Gide, Andre

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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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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Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb

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

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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 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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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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]

Bible

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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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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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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