Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

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

Halas, George

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

10.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gide, Andre

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Foss, Sam Walter

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Munro, Barry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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

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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.