Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Sharpman, Al

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Mayes, Charles

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken

10.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

11.

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

Gide, Andre

12.

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

13.

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

Buddha

14.

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

15.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

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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

19.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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.

22.

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

23.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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

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

Munro, Barry

28.

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

Allen, James

29.

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

Thurber, James

30.

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

31.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

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

Simonides

33.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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]

Bible

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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Seneca

38.

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

39.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

40.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

Boswell, Nelson

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

Brown, Les

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

49.

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

Proverb