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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Munro, Barry

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Pep without purpose is piffle.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Brown, Les

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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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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]

Bible

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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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Allen, James

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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

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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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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

Proverb

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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