Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Brooks, Garth

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

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

Buddha

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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

Seneca

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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.

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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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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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