Quotes About Purpose

I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?

The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.

As we understand the world better, the idea that it has a transcendent purpose seems increasingly untenable.

Life ends, and that's part of what makes it special. What exists is here, in front of us, what we can see and touch and affect. Our lives are not dress rehearsals in which we plan and are tested in anticipation of the real show to come. This is it, the only performance we're going to get to give, and it is what we make of it.

There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

Each time I did assignments or editorials, I realized that I wanted to do something more. I saw that it wasn't just about the clothes.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Where do you come from? And where are you going? Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.

The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

I'm reminded everyday that I was born to do great things, I believe that and when it's my time I shall.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live.

Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.