Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

14.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

17.

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

23.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Martyn, Henry

25.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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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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]

Bible

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

30.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

32.

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

Buddha

34.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Bible

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.