Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Purpose

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

10.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

18.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

19.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

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

21.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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

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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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Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose.

Proverb

28.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

35.

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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Socrates

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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