Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Purpose

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Sharpman, Al

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Halas, George

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Thurber, James

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Hoffer, Eric

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

Foss, Sam Walter

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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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He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Martyn, Henry

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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Sa'id, Abu

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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