Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Brown, Les

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

Thurber, James

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.

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

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

Wieder, Marcia

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halas, George

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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

Sharpman, Al

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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.

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

29.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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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.

33.

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

34.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

40.

Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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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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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]

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

45.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's