Quotes About Purpose

Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important.

I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.

You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it's not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can't worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That's it.

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

Instead of waking up and worrying about your thigh gap, wake up and worry about what you're going to achieve today. What can you do, and how can you give back?

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

If you have a strong sense of who you are and what you're doing, then it's actually easier to work with other people, because you don't have to worry about them or yourself. You're just worrying about getting the best product, and all that other stuff is out of the way.

One of the lessons of 2016 is to spend less time worrying about what will happen and more time worrying about what we want to happen.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

People get involved not just in politics but in groups and sects and... forget the main reason why we're here: to worship Allah.

My work is my worship, and that's what means the most to me.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

I didn't really get into the sport for fame. I didn't get into it to be this infamous guy that everybody worships. I got into this sport to make a difference.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.

The worst thing you can do is sit there and do nothing, right?

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.