Quotes About Purpose

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

God uses whoever he wants.

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

God my Creator said, 'Go and make disciples.' So I don't want to sit and make excuses.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?

How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?

So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.

Never confuse desire with vision. Desire has to do with what we want. Vision has to do with what we need.

Point your feet in the direction you want to go and your life will follow.

You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

The key to a good life is finding things that you want to master.

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.

Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.