Quotes About Purpose

We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

I never settled because I wasn't meant to pack toilet rolls or stack shelves.

My mother always told me, 'I didn't make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.'

I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose.

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

I made so many mistakes on purpose just to get them out of the way.

You still haven't said where you come from. Where is your home?" I said, "I am a sheath, so home is wherenever my shade, my blade is.

You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.

She said people found running to something easier than running from something.