Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Gide, Andre

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Brown, Les

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Munro, Barry

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

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Robbins, Anthony

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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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