Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Simonides

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Sharpman, Al

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mayes, Charles

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

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

11.

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

Martyn, Henry

12.

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.

13.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

14.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

15.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

18.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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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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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 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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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]

Bible

36.

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

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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

38.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Picasso, Pablo

43.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

49.

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 aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo