Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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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

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

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Cowper, William

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

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

Brooks, Garth

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Proverb

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

20.

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

Seneca

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Robbins, Anthony

23.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Sharpman, Al

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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

Angelis, Barbara De