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Purpose

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

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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

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

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.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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 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

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

Tallentyre, S. G.

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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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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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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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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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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 makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

28.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Griffith, Nanci

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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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Martyn, Henry

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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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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Morgan, Arthur E.