Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tallentyre, S. G.

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Cowper, William

28.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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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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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 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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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.

41.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

44.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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