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Purpose

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

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

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

Brown, Les

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Gide, Andre

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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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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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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Thurber, James

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Craig Mary

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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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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Bible

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

Wieder, Marcia

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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.