Quotes About Purpose

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.

When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

I am one of the lucky people in the world: I found something I always wanted to do, and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.

I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, it sort of chose me more than I chose it.

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

I'm not one of those little kids that grow up wanting to be an actor.

I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

As much as I appreciate acting and enjoy it, and like it, it wasn't something where I grew up wanting to be a movie star.