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

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Hemingway, Ernest

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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

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

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

Bible

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.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ziglar, Zig

19.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb

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

Thurber, James

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

Munro, Barry

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Brown, Les

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

43.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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]

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

Brown, Les

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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]

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

Frankl, Viktor E.