Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

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

Robbins, Anthony

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]

Bible

11.

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

Martyn, Henry

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

15.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Sharpman, Al

18.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

27.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

28.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

30.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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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

35.

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

Brooks, Garth

36.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

40.

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

Socrates

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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 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

43.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

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

45.

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]

Bible

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

Ziglar, Zig

49.

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