Quotes About Purpose

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

Use your time well. Everyone gets time equally. It doesn't matter how much money you make.

I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

My thing ever since I came in the NBA is making sure it's not about how much money I make, but instead it being about the love of the game.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

A huge part of my life is my job, and that's the highest compliment you can pay to any job.

I was born and raised to play rugby. I have two parents who are hugely proud of my rugby achievements, but even they say that maybe it was just a platform to give me a voice to do something better, and rugby wasn't what I was all about. Something else was.

This is what I do for a living. It's not who I am as a human being.

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.

When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?

The joy of just being involved in something, of being part of a big process, just as a human being, it's nice to be part of people who are in the same enterprise, heading for the same goal, rather than, 'Oh this is all about me and my role. The story's about me.'

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

I'm in the business of creating human beings.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

Work is at the core of human dignity.

I have a divinely-ordained calling in my life to create a larger impact on human society.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

I just try to make sure, in everything I do, I do what I'm supposed to be doing in a confident and a humble way at the same time. It's been working for me.

When we talk about Something More, it isn't wanting a fancier car, a bigger house, or a designer dress. Something More is what we need to fill our spiritual hunger.

There's a drive, there's a hunger inside of me that says, 'I know what I can do and I'm going to get it done.'