Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Brooks, Garth

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

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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]

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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Patanjali

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Halas, George

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Socrates

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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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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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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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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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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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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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]

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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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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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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