Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Purpose

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pep without purpose is piffle.

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

Seneca

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

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Allen, James

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

Sharpman, Al

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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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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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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.

Hildebrand, Kenneth

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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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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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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. It may take the form of a spiritual ideal, or it may be a worldly object, according to his nature at the time being; but whichever it is, he should steadily focus his thought forces upon the object which he has set before him. He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought. Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.

Allen, James

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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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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Eliot, George

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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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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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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles