The Lexicon
Meaning, will, destiny
Purpose
Purpose is the single aim that gathers a scattered life into a beam. Where the mind drifts, nothing forms; where one definite intention is held with faith, the whole of a person organizes around it. The success teachers made this the first law: choose one major aim, write it down, read it daily, and let every smaller decision bend toward it. A purpose clearly fixed becomes a magnet, drawing means, allies, and opportunity that the aimless never see.
Carried by 30 teachers · across 4 traditions · 16 quotes
But purpose runs deeper than achievement. It is the felt sense that your life is for something, that you carry a contribution only you can make. The seeker discovers it less by inventing than by listening, finding the place where your gladness meets a genuine need. Held lightly and steadily, definiteness of purpose turns desire into design and design into demonstration. To live on purpose is to stop being moved by every passing current and to become, instead, a cause.
In their words
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.'Napoleon Hill
Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.George S. Clason
Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.Swami Vivekananda
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.Fyodor Dostoevsky