Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

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

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

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

Seneca

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mayes, Charles

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Brooks, Garth

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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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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

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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