Quotes About Purpose

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

All this stuff doesn't happen to you for your own sake. It doesn't happen to you so you can fill your shelves with trophies or line your pockets with cash; it happens so you can have a positive influence and encourage other people.

As much as trophies matter, leaving something that's built to last is the most important thing to me.

Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.

Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

I have been stubborn and getting into trouble since I was 2, but I learned how to redirect that into good causes.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Sure, I could retire anytime. I don't need to work for money. But retire to what? Sitting around the pool reading? Or even trout fishing. I love trout fishing, and I go every time I get a chance. But a man with pride in his profession need to work.

I have a truck team for a reason.

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

I used to sit in my pickup truck at 7 o'clock in the morning outside my office and listen to the Replacements or something full blast, thinking, 'What am I doing here?'

There are plenty of days when I would love to get in my truck, drive to work, walk behind the pawn counter and just do a regular job.

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Stick to your true north - build greatness for the long term.

If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

People need to be true to themselves, and if entertaining and content-creating is something that does not come naturally and is really difficult, they should find something they are passionate about and love and do that instead.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

I think there's a right time for everything, and I'm a true believer that everything happens for a reason.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.