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Purpose

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

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, L. Ron

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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gide, Andre

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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

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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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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

23.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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 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

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Thurber, James

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

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Casals, Pablo

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end