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

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 134 reads

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• Every why has a wherefore.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 35 votes · 189 reads

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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.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 176 reads

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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.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 87 reads

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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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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 49 votes · 104 reads

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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.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.3 · 58 votes · 114 reads

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• I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 115 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 53 votes · 57 reads

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• In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.6 · 18 votes · 18 reads

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

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 121 reads

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

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 119 reads

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

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 2 reads

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 72 reads

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

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 194 reads

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• Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 139 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 31 votes · 127 reads

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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.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.5 · 48 votes · 11 reads

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• Pep without purpose is piffle.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 16 votes · 143 reads

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

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 102 reads

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• The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 154 reads

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• The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 147 reads

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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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 34 reads

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

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 13 votes · 95 reads

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• The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 18 reads

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• The purpose of man is in action not thought.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 54 votes · 31 reads

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

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.4 · 6 votes · 180 reads

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• The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 102 reads

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• The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 161 reads

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• 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

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.9 · 41 votes · 139 reads

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• The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 69 reads

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• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  3.3 · 43 votes · 175 reads

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• They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 25 reads

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• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 165 reads

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• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 7 reads

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• To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 59 reads

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• To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearl

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 57 reads

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 116 reads

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 35 votes · 99 reads

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• 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.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 166 reads

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 127 reads

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• What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 64 reads

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• What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 102 reads

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

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 28 votes · 81 reads

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

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 46 reads

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

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 56 votes · 68 reads

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

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.4 · 30 votes · 195 reads

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• 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.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.5 · 34 votes · 147 reads

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

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.6 · 9 votes · 82 reads

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