Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

- Levi, Primo

Best Quotes about Purpose

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Socrates

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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Seneca

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

Craig Mary

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

Casals, Pablo

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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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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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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 purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David