Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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.

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

Wieder, Marcia

Pep without purpose is piffle.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Proverb

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Gide, Andre

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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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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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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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

24.

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

25.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

29.

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

30.

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

Picasso, Pablo

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Mayes, Charles

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

Brown, Les

38.

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

39.

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.