Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Purpose

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Thurber, James

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

12.

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

Socrates

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

21.

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

22.

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Proverb

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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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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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.

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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

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

Simonides

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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