Encouraging Purpose Quotes

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These purpose quotes illustrate what purpose is and why you need to seek it out and find it for your won life. We all have a purpose for being here, whether we know it or not. It is our individual responsibility to find it and live it every day. Enjoy the purpose quotes.

Purpose Quotes

• "I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honourable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." Leo C. Rosten

• "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." John F. Kennedy

• "A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance." Gary Hamel

• "Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement." W. Clement Stone

• "True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." Helen Keller

• "I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." Og Mandino

• "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." Robert Byrne

• "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." Washington Irving

• "I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for." Norman Mailer

• “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 you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” Patanjali

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• “When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.” Betty Sue Flowers

• “When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.” Betty Sue Flowers

• "Knowing your life purpose is the first step toward living a truly conscious life. A life purpose provides us with a clear goal, a set finish line that you truly want to reach." Simon Foster

• "Inspiration in life is born when we have a purpose." Daniel Longwe

• "Your purpose must be particular to you. This is the road less travelled. Your purpose cannot be someone else's path, not your family's path nor your friends' path." Drew Scott Pearlman

• “When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny.” Ralph Buchanan

• “Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.” Thomas Carlyle

• “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

• “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

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

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