Purposefulness Quotes:

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

- Russell Brand

topic: Succeed, Puberty, Purposefulness

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

- Howard Thurman

topic: Determination, Hard Life, Life Is, Purposefulness

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Children, School, Discipline, Purposefulness

Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Unique, Goal, Stronger, Purposefulness

To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal is essential. Many people fail at this vital point. The goal must be definite and specific, not in any sense vague or fuzzy. And to prove attainable, its image needs to be sharpened and resharpened continually, so that it stands out vividly in your thoughts. You must know, at all times, precisely and for certain what it is you want to accomplish and achieve. Strong and organized purposefulness toward a definite objective will focus your powers into a strong motivation in attainment of your goal.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

topic: Strong, Motivation, People, Purposefulness

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Christmas, Emptiness, Ends, Purposefulness

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Struggle, Goal, Choices, Constant Struggle, Purposefulness

Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness, and presence of the artist.

- Laurence Boldt

source: Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.184, Penguin

topic: Artist, Men, Careers, Purposefulness

Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.

- Iyanla Vanzant

source: FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 28, 2013

topic: Purpose, Divine, Release, Divine Purpose, Purposefulness

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Motivation, Safe, Purpose, Purposefulness, Overcoming Fear

The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Life, Faith, God, Life Is Precious, Life Is Beautiful

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

- Jack Penn

topic: Inspirational, Block, Secret, Secret Life, Inspirational Goal

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Social Entrepreneurship, Inspiration To Write

It’s not about the money. Its about creating a business out of your life’s purpose and mission.

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Aug 19, 2013

topic: Creating, Purpose, Missions, Purposefulness

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

- Howard Thurman

source: "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

topic: Alive, Soul Life, Seeing Yourself, Inspirational Passion, Time And Change

Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

- Steve Gleason

topic: Meaningful, Thinking, People, Life Is Difficult, Purposeful Life

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

source: Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Depression, Pain, Being Sad, Feeling Depressed, Prozac Nation

Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

- John Eliot

topic: Heart, Accomplishment, Achievement, Purposefulness

When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

topic: School, Wind, People, Purposefulness

By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

- T. Harv Eker

topic: Motivation, Fear, Joy, Money Motivation, Contributing

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness, Purposefulness

There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.

- Louise Dickinson Rich

source: Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”

topic: Giving, People, Balance, Purposefulness, Invulnerability

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: Twitter post from Jan 02, 2014

topic: Want, Easy, Settling, Purposefulness

That is what we must do when we fully know the purposefulness of life - live it gloriously by living it ecstatically. We can live it ecstatically only as we know the ecstatic nature of God and become like Him through being continually inspired by communion with Him. To become like Him, we must become aware of our identity with Him. We must know Him as Creator of all that is, and in so doing know ourselves as creator of all that is.

- Walter Russell

topic: Nature, Identity, Inspired, Purposefulness

Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

- Ray Brassier

topic: Philosophy, Self Esteem, Opportunity, Man And Nature, Purposefulness

I'm much more interested in developing human character in society. And I'm much more interested in the social conditions that foster commitment to ideals, a sense of solidarity, purposefulness, steadfastness, responsibility.

- Murray Bookchin

source: Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

topic: Commitment, Responsibility, Character, Purposefulness, Social Conditions

There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and power: through music or visual art, some event or experience decisively influencing their life, looking through a microscope or telescope, or just by looking at the miraculous manifestations or purposefulness of Nature.

- Ernst Boris Chain

topic: Art, Believe, People, Divine Guidance, Purposefulness

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

- Stephen Dunn

topic: Basketball, Writing, Discovery, Purposefulness