Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Purpose

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Allen, James

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

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Socrates

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

Craig Mary

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

18.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thurber, James

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

28.

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

30.

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

Seneca

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

Gide, Andre

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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.

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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 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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Thoreau, Henry David