Quotes About Purpose

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.

No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.

A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

Refocusing on what you do want will take you in the direction of what you want.

God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill.

People want to be part of something bigger than they are.