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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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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

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. [2 Corinthians 5:20]

Bible

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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 secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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

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

Sharpman, Al

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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.

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Seneca

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von