Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Munro, Barry

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

Seneca

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Martyn, Henry

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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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It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Rockefeller, Nelson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Sharpman, Al

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Socrates

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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