Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

- Craig Mary

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Allen, James

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. [Psalms 27:4]

Bible

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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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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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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Sharpman, Al

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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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

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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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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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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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Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.