Quotes About Purpose

It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people.

When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.

I ran for public office to do something good.

If you play football, you have to try to do the maximum, so I'm always doing the maximum for myself because, after my football career, I want to sit down and think I did something good.

I feel like nowadays it's almost become a corny thing to say that you want to be a role model or do something good for the world, but the artists I've looked up to - like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Prince - were about something.

I wanted to save people's lives. I wanted to do something good in this world.

When we started with Ring of Honor, when we started with TNA, there was a very similar mindset that we were building something, that we were doing something good.

When I end my career, I don't need to win eight championships, I'd rather have done something special.

At one point, I quit acting for a little bit to study psycholinguistics - somewhat a more practical career. It just didn't feel right.

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.

At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else... But there's nothing else I want to do more than music. That's why I stay in the booth.

I always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.