Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

- Hudgins, Ken

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Seneca

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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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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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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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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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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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

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