Quotes About Purpose

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

I really enjoy working with people who have come into this industry for what I think are really admirable reasons. People who really want to tell brilliant stories and do it in the most effective way possible.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

I still feel like I'm doing this for the same reasons and working just as hard.

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.

The three things I said when I came out of school were I want to work consistently, I want to do good work and I want to be paid fairly, and that's happened. But I didn't become an actress for the money. I do it for other reasons.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

If they need me to score 30, I can go do it. If they need me to just rebound and defend, I can do that. I can play this game, just in case people forgot. You just carry that chip on your shoulder, and you go out there and do what I was put on this Earth to do.

It cannot take decades to resurrect, we must act immediately with purpose and enthusiasm to rebuild.

We are not utilizing the Iraqi oil for U.S. purposes. We are not asking that the Iraqi oil be used to pay our military expenses. We are asking only that the Iraqi oil be used to rebuild Iraq - that is, to rebuild Iraq for the Iraqi people.

Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

My role isn't just receiving.

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.

This time we live in is saying, 'Live for yourself, and whatever makes you happy' and all this kind of stuff, and it's so contrary. And we so don't want to go and be reckless for the Lord.

I've got to keep on writing. That's non-negotiable. At the same time, one has to look at the world and recognise that writing is not the only thing to be done - I want to have an effect on the world.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

I started to get my doctorate, not to be called 'doctor.' Those are just little things you get to get recognition.

Of course it's nice to get recognition, but I'm not looking for it. I just do my thing. If it comes, it comes. But it's not what you play for.

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.