Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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.

10.

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

Thurber, James

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

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

16.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Buddha

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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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

31.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sharpman, Al

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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von