Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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.

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

Simonides

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

Craig Mary

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Martyn, Henry

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

Wooden, John

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

Buddha

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Seneca

27.

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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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 on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sharpman, Al

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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 purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

47.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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