Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Martyn, Henry

Best Quotes about Purpose

1.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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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3.

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

4.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

5.

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.

6.

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

Brown, Les

7.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

8.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

11.

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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12.

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

13.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Gide, Andre

19.

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

20.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

23.

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

Brooks, Garth

24.

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

Ustinov, Peter

25.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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

27.

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

28.

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

29.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

35.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

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

Thurber, James

37.

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

38.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

39.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

46.

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

47.

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

Ziglar, Zig

48.

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

49.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

50.

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