Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Blanchard, Ken

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

19.

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

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

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

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

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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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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

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

Proverb

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Mayes, Charles

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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 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

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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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buddha

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

Brooks, Garth

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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