Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Purpose

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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

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

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

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

Buddha

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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 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

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

Martyn, Henry

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Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward toward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Bible

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Fuller, Thomas

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

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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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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 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 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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Brooks, Garth

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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 man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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.