Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Thurber, James

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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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

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Brown, Les

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Buddha

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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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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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