Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Mayes, Charles

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Fuller, Thomas

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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.

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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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.