Quotes About Purpose

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.

There are not many people around the world who can say, 'I get paid to jump into a sandpit.'

I don't need to be the fastest or be able to jump highest to be effective or do the right things to help the team.

I've been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps.

I intend to live life, not just exist.

I started to think I could do just as much by playing basketball and setting a good sporting example than I could by going on the mission. But in the end I realized the mission was what was expected of me and was what would be better for me in the end.

It's very important for people to know what gives them meaning. But it's hard for people to figure out if you're not connecting with yourself and taking the time to just be introspective and daydream.

I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.

I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.

It is just living life intentionally - that is what I want instead of just existing.

Football is just one part of me. It's not the be-all, end all.

I believe God has given us just one life; we need to make the most of it.

I never wanted to do just one thing. There's even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it's always been that I have to have the vision first.

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.