Quotes About Purpose

I knew I had to just keep believing, never lose sight of my purpose. As a fighter, you need to be delusional in a way. It keeps you going.

There are so many things you can lose sight of as you try to win games and all the stuff we try to do every day.

I had a goal. I was on a mission. And somewhere along the line I lost sight of what I was supposed to be doing. I got out of my training program.

MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.

I never set my sights on being an actor or comedian or presenter.

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.

I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

I signed for Tottenham for a reason, and I love to play here.

When I signed with the Rockets, I just kind of felt like that was my calling card.

Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.

You should sign a movie you want to be part of, which is why I signed 'Mubarakan.'

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

I want to do things of significance, things that will inspire people to know how good life can be.

Presumably, what you want to do is work on something meaningful and significant with people you really admire.

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

I just try to find things that either need to be done, should be done, or where I can make a difference in a significant way. And the things I've been able to participate in have been very, very exciting.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone. We are all significant parts of the whole. I never think of myself as single; I think of myself as Sheri, a member of the Lord's Church.

Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'

The RFA requires federal agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small firms, and if significant, consider less burdensome alternatives. Federal agencies sometimes fail to comply at all, or simply 'check the box,' fulfilling the letter of the law, while missing the purpose of the law entirely.

I'm still alive to change the world and to do things that are significant. I don't know what they all may be, but I was put on this earth for a reason.

When you sign up to become something, you're signing up to become something larger than yourself. Represent something more than yourself.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.