Quotes About Purpose

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

There was a time when I was in my sins and I was God's enemy, but now I have been purchased in Christ, and God is for me. He is not going to do anything or command anything that is not ultimately for my good and for His glory.

The time I spend in the morning - praying, sipping coffee, and coming up with my list - is a ritual I relish. I have done it for so long now that I subconsciously measure whether or not the things I'm doing match with what I should be doing, what I want to be doing, and the life I want to live.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

When my mother died, it sort of put a damper on things. My career didn't have the same significance or excitement. It had always been about doing well for my family - my brothers, sisters, father, mother. Then something interesting and important happened - I started doing things for me.

Life is too short to sit around doing nothing.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

I am very scared of sitting without work.

I come from the kind of family where work is work; my parents always taught me that it's better to be doing something than sitting around doing nothing.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

It doesn't really matter the score or the situation: I got a job to do.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.

We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.

If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.

People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing - but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

I don't do ski racing to be famous.

I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me. I'd think, when I'm grown up, at 18, then I made it 21, it will be clear what role I should have in life. It never happened. I never signed on the dotted line as the sort of adult my father wanted.

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.