Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Ustinov, Peter

Best Quotes about Purpose

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Gide, Andre

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Proverb

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sharpman, Al

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Socrates

18.

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

Seneca

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

Mayes, Charles

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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

41.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

Bible

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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