Find Your Purpose

Dreams don't work unless you do. - John C Maxwell

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need. - Ben Johnson

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Emile Zola

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. - Milton Berle

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I wake up with a good attitude every day. Then idiots happen. - Unknown

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. - John C Maxwell

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something. - Morihei Ueshiba

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. - Ruth Gordon

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. - Barbara Kingsolver

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable. - Theodore Roosevelt

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - Unknown

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. - Albert Camus

We need to take dreams more literally, and waking life more symbolically. - Robert Moss

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. - Roger von Oech

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. - Jane Addams

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. - Anna Pavlova

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. - Andy Grove

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. - George Burns

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. - Brian Tracy

Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

Don't let your dreams rust! Listen to your youthful bells ringing loud inside of you. - Bernard Kelvin Clive

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it. - Andrew Carnegie

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. - Will Smith

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C S Lewis

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. - Thomas W. Higginson

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Success goes to the ones who do. Get up. Show up. Throw up if you have to. Do it afraid, but do it no matter. - Toni Sorenson

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done. - Bo Bennett

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. - Corra May Harris

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin - but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. - Romans 8:28

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. - Zig Ziglar

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe. - Sumner Redstone

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T S Eliot

The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. - Franklin D Roosevelt

There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that book. - Pierre Boyle

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. - Sloan Wilson

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. - Diana Rankin