Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tallentyre, S. G.

Best Quotes about Purpose

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

Hemingway, Ernest

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Wieder, Marcia

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

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

10.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Schelling, Felix E.

15.

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

16.

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

Brooks, Garth

17.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Casals, Pablo

18.

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in.

Moody, Dwight L.

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

23.

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

24.

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

Martyn, Henry

25.

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

26.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

27.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.

Mayes, Charles

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Sharpman, Al

37.

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Gide, Andre

42.

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

Simonides

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

The purpose of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. [Proverbs 20:5]

Bible

50.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.