Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

- Winkworth

Best Quotes about 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

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Seneca

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

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

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

35.

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 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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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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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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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 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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Sharpman, Al

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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