Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Allen, James

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

15.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Buddha

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

Gide, Andre

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

Mayes, Charles

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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