Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

- Winkworth

Best Quotes about Purpose

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

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

Thurber, James

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

Proverb

It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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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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

16.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

Seneca

18.

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

Allen, James

19.

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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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

21.

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

22.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

24.

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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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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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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There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

30.

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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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

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Sharpman, Al

35.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

38.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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

40.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

41.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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 whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Plutarch

44.

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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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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People should follow their own energy.