Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Seneca

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

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Shakespeare, William

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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

Socrates

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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 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 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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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]

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

Gide, Andre