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Purpose

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Seneca

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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 makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Allen, James

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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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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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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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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Picasso, Pablo