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76 quotes (Page 3 of 4 pages)The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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George Eliot
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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John Mason Brown
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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
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L. Ron Hubbard
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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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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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
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Thomas Paine
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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
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They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.
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Socrates
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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William Cowper
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To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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George Eliot
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What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?
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Source Unknown
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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
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William Shakespeare
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Seneca
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Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
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Denis Waitley
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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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Count Leo Tolstoy
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You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
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Marcia Wieder
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You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.
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Les Brown
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You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.
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Her Majesty's Wizard
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Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.
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Winkworth
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun