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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
Purpose Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Purpose

1.
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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2.
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

3.
You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.
Munro, Barry

4.
The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.
Gschwandtner, Gerhard

5.
Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
Ziglar, Zig

6.
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.

7.
It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
Picasso, Pablo

8.
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]
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9.
Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.
Winkworth

10.
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
Shaw, George Bernard

11.
They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
Socrates

12.
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Buscaglia, Leo

13.
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.
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

15.
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

16.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Frankl, Viktor E.

17.
The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
Craig Mary

18.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Irving, Washington

19.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.
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

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
Mayes, Charles

24.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
Hudgins, Ken

27.
Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Thoreau, Henry David

28.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Eliot, George

29.
Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
Sharpman, Al

30.
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
Levi, Primo

31.
If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
Brown, Les

32.
You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
Wieder, Marcia

33.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Allen, James

34.
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
Hemingway, Ernest

36.
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
Robbins, Anthony

37.
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

38.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Gide, Andre

39.
He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

40.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

41.
What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
Shakespeare, William

42.
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Casals, Pablo

43.
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

44.
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.
Pilgrim, Peace

45.
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

46.
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Carlyle, Thomas

47.
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Parkhurst, Charles H.

48.
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

49.
If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

50.
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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