Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Ustinov, Peter

Best Quotes about Purpose

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Socrates

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

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

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gide, Andre

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Seneca

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

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