Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

Munro, Barry

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Sharpman, Al

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.

Brown, Les

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

Socrates

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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

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

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

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

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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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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 mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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