Motivational Quotes

Purpose

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

- Gschwandtner, Gerhard

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

Simonides

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

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Ustinov, Peter

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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

14.

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

Proverb

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

Sharpman, Al

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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 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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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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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

26.

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

Martyn, Henry

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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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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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]

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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