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

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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.

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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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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

26.

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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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Mayes, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Socrates

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

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Thurber, James

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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?

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

Casals, Pablo

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides