Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Seneca

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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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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]

Bible

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Craig Mary

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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

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Fuller, Thomas