Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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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

2.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

3.

Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

4.

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

5.

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

6.

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

7.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

8.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

9.

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

10.

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

Munro, Barry

11.

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

12.

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

Gide, Andre

13.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

14.

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.

15.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

19.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

20.

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

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

23.

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

Picasso, Pablo

24.

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

Fuller, Thomas

25.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

Allen, James

30.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

33.

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

34.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

37.

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

Casals, Pablo

38.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

39.

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

Redfield, James

40.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

41.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

42.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

43.

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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44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

46.

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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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

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

49.

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

50.

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