Motivational Quotes

Purpose

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

Allen, James

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Gschwandtner, Gerhard

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Gordon, Arthur

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

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

Martyn, Henry

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

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

Buddha

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

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.

Thurber, James

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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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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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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Henry, Philip

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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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A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Levi, Primo

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

Brown, Les

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

Mayes, Charles

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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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Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Waitley, Denis

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Wizard, Her Majesty's

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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 men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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