Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Purpose

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Shakespeare, William

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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sharpman, Al

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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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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