Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

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

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

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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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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People should follow their own energy.

Schultz, Will

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

Brooks, Garth

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Powell, Adam Clayton

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Griffith, Nanci

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

Gide, Andre

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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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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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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Buddha

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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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