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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

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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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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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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Seneca

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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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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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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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You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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