Purpose Quotes - Page 10

• We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, World, This World

  John Ruskin (1899*). “John Ruskin's Works”

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• 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

  Success, Strong, Character

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• They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.

  Walter Russell

  Order, Secret, Energy

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• Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Science, Journey

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• Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

  Roger Scruton

  Home, Joy, Sorrow

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• The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

  Theophile Gautier

  Art, Philosophical, Painting

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• I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Feelings, Vision, Green

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

  William Stafford

  World, Birth, Whole

  William Stafford, “Assurance”

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• No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

  Grant Cardone

  Inspirational, Goal, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2017

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• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.31, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Hope

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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

  Intention, Knows, Universe

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• Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Action, Meaningless

  Twitter post from Mar 2, 2012

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Moving, Greatness

  Thomas Paine (1852). “The Rights of Man: With a Brief Historical Preface”, p.98

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• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

  Landon Donovan

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

  Roman Abramovich

  Funny, Success, Sports

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

  Amit Ray

  Life, Positive, Spiritual

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.98, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

  Norman Cousins

  Size, Problem, Paralysis

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Determination, Commitment, Differences

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• At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: 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.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Sarcastic, Father, Night

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