Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

Munger, Thornton T.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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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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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 good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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

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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

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

Thurber, James

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Buddha

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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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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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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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