Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Les

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ustinov, Peter

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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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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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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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

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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

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

Seneca

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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