Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Purpose

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 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

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Simonides

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Gide, Andre

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

Socrates

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Shakespeare, William

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb

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What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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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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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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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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