Quotes About Purpose

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

I think it's important to have a dream and to follow your heart.

I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.

I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.

I hope I have important things to say.

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

Football is my life, but there are more important things in life.

I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?

If you choose to do things that you are passionate about, you will not only do them better, but most importantly, you'll be a significantly happier person.

I have a purpose and a meaning in life, and I have to fulfill that. Being a champion is great, but more importantly than that, you get to be an inspiration and a role model to other people.

I'm not here to try and impress anyone or make anyone mad, I'm just going in there and doing what I love, and hopefully people can appreciate what I'm there for, and I'm not trying to be Hollywood star or a Hollywood personality or something.

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

I feel that doing business is just like practising Buddhism. Money is not your only purpose. Your purpose is to make things better for other people, and in the end, money will come as a result.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human soul.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.

There's not much point breaking records if, in the end, it doesn't mean anything.

Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.