Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Munro, Barry

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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.

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

48.

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]

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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]

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