Quotes About Purpose

On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.

Design the life you want to live.

Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.

Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.

Somebody asked me a question. It was a defining question: 'What type of legacy do you want to leave?' We ask that question a lot later in life, but we need to start asking it to young people.

Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.

Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be.

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.

Who you are is more important than what you do. The goal is to bring what you do in alignment with who you are, so you don't end up being someone you don't want to be.

I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.

Fair is whatever God wants to do.

Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

The happiness and the joy that I see in the eyes of the children. They saved my life so I want to, give it back. I'm not joking.

I like skateboarding. I'm here on this planet to skateboard; I feel this is what God wants me to do. I just live it. I get hurt all the time. I break bones. It's just all part of the process.

Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.

I always said all my life, if I wasn't born and they gave me the question, I'd say, I don't want to be born.

A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.

Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.