Quotes About Purpose

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.

Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

God just has his own agenda, and he does what he wants to do with stuff.

It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find.

It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.

I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages anymore. I thought, "That's what I want to do with my life."

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

One comes to a decision based on what one wants, not based on what one doesn't want. Got it?

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.