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"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

"What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation."
-- Joseph M. Dodge

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds: 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 (2nd century BC)

"When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power."
-- Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953 American writer on success and positive thinking)

“When you have purpose, you don’t have time for negativity.”
-- Mark Victor Hansen

"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big, bold, righteous and eternal."
-- Barry Munro

"We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we’re stuck with it. Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it... [The creative work that goes into becoming ‘you’] is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got."
-- Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle

"I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose."
-- Marlo Morgan

"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose."
-- Viktor Frankl

"Sad will the day be for any man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, with the thoughts he is thinking, and the deeds he is doing - when there is not forever beating at the door of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do ..."
--Philip Brooks

"The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with purpose."
-- Montaigne

"All successful people are people of purpose. They hold fast to an idea, a project, a plan, and will not let it go; they cherish it, brood upon it, tend and develop it; and when assailed by difficulties, they refuse to be beguiled into surrender; indeed, the intensity of the purpose increases with the growing magnitude of the obstacles encountered."
-- James Allen, The Mastery of Destiny

"Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it."
-- Brian Tracy

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
-- Dr. Viktor Frankl, psychologist

"People love to win. If you're not totally clear about the purpose of what you are doing, you have no chance of winning."
-- David Allen, author

"A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
Thomas Carlyle

"More men fail through lack of purpose than through lack of talent."
-- Billy Sunday

"Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty - shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power."
-- Kenneth Hildebrand, American Author

"Purpose ... is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead."
-- Kenneth Blanchard

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

"Really believe in your heart of hearts that your fundamental purpose, the reason for being, is to enlarge the lives of others. Your life will be enlarged also. And all of the other things we have been taught to concentrate on will take care of themselves."
-- Pete Thigpen, business leader

"There is one quality that 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