Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Brown, Les

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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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Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

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

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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

47.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

48.

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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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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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