Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Brooks, Garth

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

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

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

Sharpman, Al

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Munro, Barry

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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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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What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip