Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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

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

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

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

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

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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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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

Tallentyre, S. G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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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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.

29.

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

Buddha

30.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. [Philippians 1:27]

Bible

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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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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The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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.

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

Gide, Andre

49.

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

Seneca

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

Thoreau, Henry David