Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Martyn, Henry

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.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mayes, Charles

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Brown, Les

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

Allen, James

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

Casals, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken