Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Purpose

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Eliot, George

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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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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 mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

Carnegie, Dale

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Griffith, Nanci

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

Seneca

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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

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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 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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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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 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

43.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von