Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Brown, Les

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.

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Gide, Andre

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Mayes, Charles

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

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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.

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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

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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

Seneca

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

Munro, Barry

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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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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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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