Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb

13.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Allen, James

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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

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

35.

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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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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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

39.

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

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

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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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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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca