Quotes About Purpose

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.

Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.

God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.

I always have a vision when I go in, I always know what I want to do.

A vision could put you on a path you don't want to follow.

Before I die, I want to fight for life.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

I've got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy.

I don't have a problem with dying but I have a problem with what I'm going to die for. I don't want to die for no reason at all. If I'm going to die for something, I want it to be worthwhile.

The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being