Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

- Tolstoy, Count Leo

Best Quotes about Purpose

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

Fuller, Thomas

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.

Craig Mary

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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.

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

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

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

Sophocles

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

Mayes, Charles

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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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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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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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sharpman, Al

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

Brooks, Garth

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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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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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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Hudgins, Ken

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Eliot, George

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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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Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

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

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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