Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

- Levi, Primo

Best Quotes about Purpose

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Mayes, Charles

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

Seneca

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Proverb

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

14.

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

15.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

16.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

17.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

18.

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

Casals, Pablo

19.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

20.

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

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

24.

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

Picasso, Pablo

25.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

26.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

27.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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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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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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

39.

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

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

41.

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.

42.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

46.

Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

49.

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

50.

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