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

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

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Simonides

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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 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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Socrates

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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]

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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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Hildebrand, Kenneth