Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Martyn, Henry

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.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

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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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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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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 secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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