Purpose Quotes - Page 4

• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Pilgrim, Wanderers

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• You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Meaningful

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• To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

  Alvin Ailey

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Commitment, Tuesdays With Morrie

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Aug 03, 2010

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• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Thoughtful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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  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.

  Aristotle

  Life, Success, Wisdom

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1938). “The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”

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• Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

  Myles Munroe

  Dream, Spiritual, Motivation

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Waiting and Dating: A Sensible Guide to a Fulfilling Love Relationship”, p.13, Destiny Image Publishers

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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.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Life, Smile, Heart

  "How Can I Become the Woman of Whom I Dream?". Ensign magazine, p. 93, May 2001.

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• I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Tragic, fascinating, brilliant - life of 'wild child' Zelda Fitzgerald revisited" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2016.

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• People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

  Marcus Aurelius

  People, Impulse, Labor

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.110, Modern Library

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• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Money, Generosity

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Gymnastics, Sound

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• Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Destiny, Thinking

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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.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Firsts, Principles

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• The purpose of man is in action not thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Action

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• If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

  Steve Pavlina

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Each Day, Basic Principles, Ifs

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2015). “Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon”, p.10, Conari Press

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• You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Soul, Desire

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• No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Teamwork, Men

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• Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

  David O. McKay

  Inspirational, Positive, Challenges

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• Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Challenges, Meaning Of Life

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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