Motivational Quotes

Purpose

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Ustinov, Peter

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

10.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Craig Mary

13.

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

Sharpman, Al

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

17.

Pep without purpose is piffle.

18.

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

19.

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

20.

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

25.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

26.

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

Mayes, Charles

27.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

28.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

30.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

31.

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

32.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

33.

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

34.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

35.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

36.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

38.

You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal.

Munro, Barry

39.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Allen, James

44.

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

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

47.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.