Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Seneca

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

19.

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

Mayes, Charles

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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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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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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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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Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

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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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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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

49.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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