Purpose Quotes

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Mollie Marti

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

David O. McKay

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

Dwight L. Moody

Science fulfills its purpose, not when it explains the reasons for the dark spots on the sun, but when it understands and explains the laws of our own life, and the consequences of violating these laws.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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 SaintExupery

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

Barbara de Angelis

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Sir Winston Churchill

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

Steve Maraboli

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

Leo Buscaglia

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Steve Maraboli

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Adam Clayton Powell

The real saint, Baudelaire pretends to think, is he who flogs and kills people for their own good. His argument will be heard. A race of real saints is beginning to spread over the earth for the purposes of confirming these curious conclusions about rebellion.

Albert Camus

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Ida P. Rolf

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.

Ken Blanchard

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

Arthur E. Morgan

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.

Gita Bellin

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.

Thornton T. Munger