Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Proverb

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

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

Allen, James

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

10.

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

Picasso, Pablo

11.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

12.

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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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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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

27.

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

28.

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

29.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

40.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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