Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Munro, Barry

Best Quotes about Purpose

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

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

Brown, Les

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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

Casals, Pablo

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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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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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

32.

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

Seneca

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

34.

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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Gide, Andre

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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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