Quotes About Purpose

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

There's so much more purpose behind my getting up in the morning. Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.

Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of bedsores, at any rate.

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.

I feel quite lost INSIDE myself, like I'm looking for my train tracks for my life, as if they would just appear and solve the growing questions I seem to face (my reflection in the morning).

I ordered a wake-up call the other day. The phone rang and a woman's voice said, 'What the hell are you doing with your life?'

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

No high achiever ever woke up in the morning and said 'let's see what happens.'

When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

Getting up in the morning and loving what you do is a dream come true.

Take five minutes to centre yourself in the morning...set your intention every day...if you don't have five minutes, you don't deserve to have the life of your dreams.

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.

I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.