Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

- Winkworth

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

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

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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

Buddha

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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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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

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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I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

O'Connor, Mary

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For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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