Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Proverb

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

Mayes, Charles

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gide, Andre

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Seneca

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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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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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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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

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brown, Les

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

Martyn, Henry

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Buddha

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth