Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Martyn, Henry

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Gide, Andre

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

Bible

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

Bible

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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 mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Mayes, Charles

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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

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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

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brown, Les

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

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Socrates

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.