Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Morgan, Arthur E.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Seneca

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

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

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

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

Brooks, Garth

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brown, Les

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

Allen, James

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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

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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

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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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Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

Redfield, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Proverb

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

45.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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]

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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]

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

50.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth