Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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.

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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

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

Seneca

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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.

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Brown, Les

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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.

Bible

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace