Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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]

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Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Halas, George

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

Shakespeare, William

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 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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Casals, Pablo

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

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

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

Allen, James

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

Mayes, Charles

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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 meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Diana, Princess of Wales