Quotes About Purpose

I'm an actor, and my main purpose is to bring out interesting stories to life. If it involves a cause that I can be a part of, I most definitely will.

The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'

Whether I am the Champion or not is irrelevant to me. I am not attached to it.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

My life's goal is to bring glory to Jesus.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

Even though I am playing against others, and it is important to get there and win, I believe that Jesus is much more important than all of that.

We need to be adopted by God through Jesus - that was what happened to me, and that's what changed my life so that now, I can see that my career can be part of a calling.

In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.

I got a job to do on the field.

I don't play for job security.

Jobs are what give people a sense of fulfillment and self-reliance.

I think I'm trying to - I'm trying to make a career, rather than just doing jobs for the sake of doing jobs.

This may sound strange, but I did not join the film industry to be a star and be successful.

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior