Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Allen, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Martyn, Henry

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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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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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, ?This is what is expected of you. But I?m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role I love being with people.?

Diana, Princess of Wales