Purpose Quotes

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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

- Marshall Ferdinand Foch

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Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

- Rosa Parks

[I]f you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

- Marian Anderson

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"What will they think of me?" must be put aside for bliss.

- Joseph Campbell

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

- Henry David Thoreau

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

There are two ways of living: a man may be casual and simply exist, or constructively and deliberately try to do so. The constructive idea implies a constructiveness not only about one's own life, but about that of society, and the future possibilities of mankind.

- Sir Julian Huxley

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- E. B. White

To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.

- Dawna Markova

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

- Oprah Winfrey

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

- Henry David Thoreau

Action expresses priorities.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

- Henry David Thoreau

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

- Helen Keller

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

- Rita Mae Brown

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

- Henry David Thoreau

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

- Abraham Lincoln

This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

- George Bernard Shaw

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

- Norman Cousins

Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.

- Grandma Moses

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

- Anne Sullivan