Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Shakespeare, William

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Ustinov, Peter

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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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]

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

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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]

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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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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]

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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 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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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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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.