Quotes About Purpose

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it's all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

Any one man, woman, or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.

If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Everybody wants to be winners - you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can't see it.

I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.