Quotes About Purpose

It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.

What I would like to say is make sure you know what you really want to do and do it. And also I want to say, if not now then when?

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

My work is not about paint. It's about paint at the service of something else. It is not about gooey, chest-beating, macho '50s abstraction that allows paint to sit up on the surface as subject matter about paint.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I was damn sure that I was not going to be a lawyer or a brain surgeon.

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

It has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in, that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.

I have a call to speak, to write, to do sort of deep-heart surgery in people's lives.

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.