Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Wizard, Her Majesty's

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

10.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mayes, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.