Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Simonides

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Eliot, George

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Halas, George

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

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Allen, James

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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]

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton