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If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
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Les Brown

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In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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Sophocles

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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Andre Gide

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
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Ernest Hemingway

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It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.
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Pablo Picasso

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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
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Arthur E. Morgan

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Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
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Charles Mayes

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Man's chief end is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.
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Westminster Confession of Faith

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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
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Philip Henry

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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
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Henry David Thoreau

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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
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Adam Clayton Powell

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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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Benjamin Disraeli

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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
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Source Unknown

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People should follow their own energy.
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Will Schultz

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Pep without purpose is piffle.
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Source Unknown

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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Dag Hammarskjold

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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
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Charles H. Parkhurst

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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
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Kenneth Hildebrand

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
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Primo Levi

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The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.
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S. G. Tallentyre

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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Pablo Casals

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The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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William James

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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
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Ken Hudgins

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun