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

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

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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

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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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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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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Gide, Andre

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thurber, James

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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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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

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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.

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Martyn, Henry

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Pep without purpose is piffle.