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PURPOSE & SUCCESS
Each of us comes to this life with a unique purpose to fulfill...one which no one else can accomplish, and one which will go unfufilled unlesss we complete it.
It is that special purpose that gives meaningful depth of to our lives and drives us to exceed our self imposed limits.
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; 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
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
-- Charles Kingsley
"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
-- T. T. Munger
"Success is deciding from the start what end result you want and creating the circumstances to realize that result."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."
-- Philip Dormer Chesterfield
"If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom."
-- Sidney Madwed
"To come to be, you must have a vision of being, a dream, a purpose, a principle. You will become what your vision is."
-- Peter Zarlenga
"Follow Your Bliss. When you follow your Bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."
-- Joseph Campbell
"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
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."
-- Leo Buscaglia
"The really prosperous are those who have faith in god and are honest in their efforts to do what comes to them."
-- Charles Fillmore
"Inside you is untapped strength of will, of spirit, of heart. The kind of strength that will not flinch in the face of adversity. You have only to remember your purpose, the vision that brought you to Earth -- the vision that will take you to the stars -- and to the depths of the oceans and up the stairway of the soul. Great strength of will resides within you, waiting for expression."
-- Dan Millman
"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."
-- Henry Miller
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." --
-- Henry David Thoreau
"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 E. Frankl
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do."
-- William Elery Channing
"The secret of life is to have a task. Something that you devote your entire life to, something to bring everything to, every minute of the day, for your whole life. And the important thing is, it must be something you can't possibly do."
-- Henry Moore
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."
-- Abraham Maslow
"Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."
-- Gautama Siddhartha (Buddha)
"You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires."
-- Marcia Wieder
"Follow that path which your relaxed mind shows to be your own. In following that inner guidance...your higher self...you will be led naturally to flow into your life's purpose."
-- Grady L. Dobbs
"What you love to do is what you were born to do."
-- Susan Taylor
"Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do."
-- Rumi
"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know."
-- Thomas Wolfe
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
-- William James
"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."
-- Dr Wayne Dyer
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."
-- Bruce Barton
"Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny."
-- William E. Gladstone
"Each of us has a special spark within us. What do we do with it? Ignite that spark in you and fan the flame until it ignites the spark in someone else."
-- Grady L. Dobbs
"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... 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
"The secret to success is constancy to purpose."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal."
-- Barry Munro
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."
-- Richard Bach
Definitions of Success
Recognition & Success
Dreams & Success
Purpose & Success
Self-Expression & Success
Mind/Thought & Success
Visualization & Success
Personal Growth & Success
Commitment/Enthusiasm & Success
Strategy/Preparation & Success
Service & Success
Projection/Energy & Success
Action & Success
Perseverence/Persistence & Success
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