Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Cowper, William

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Socrates

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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

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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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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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig