"You
must be single-minded. Drive for one thing on which you
have decided." -– George
S. Patton
"Our
lives begin to end the day we become silent about things
that matter." -- Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"The
single common denominator of men and women who achieve
great things is a sense of destiny." -– Brian
Tracy
"When
you have a clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity."
-– Mark Victor Hansen
"A
man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
– Thomas Carlyle
"Let
us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry." -- Mark
Twain
"The
longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference
between the great and the insignificant, is energy --
invincible determination -- a purpose once fixed and then
death or victory." --
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
"Decide
upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize
all your activities around it." -– Brian
Tracy
"A
man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking
a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he
cannot achieve." -- Oliver
Wendell Holmes
"Pray
that your loneliness may spur you into finding something
to live for, great enough to die for." -- Dag
Hammarskjold
"When
we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future,
and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it,
we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything
that stands in our way." -–
Nido Qubein
"Selecting
your major definite purpose in life is the starting point
of personal greatness." -– Brian
Tracy
"The
chief distinguishing characteristic of leaders is Intensity
of Purpose." -– Brian
Tracy
"How
different our lives are when we really know what is deeply
important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we
manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really
matters most." -- Stephen
Covey
"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 to 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
"You
can do anything in life you set your mind to, provided
it is powered by your heart." -– Doug
Firebaugh
"To
reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor -
sail, not drift." -– Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
"Every
living creature that comes into the world has something
allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand
an idle spectator of what others are doing." -– Sarah
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