Quotes About Purpose

I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.

A lot of people say when you get a short life span you want to go out and do all of this crazy stuff like go bungee jumping and travel to exotic places. But you just want to live.

I think, as musicians, that's really all we want is to keep working. We want to have a reason to be, and we want to play for as many people in this span of life that we're allowed as we possibly can, and in as many places as we possibly can.

There were scenes that just for length purposes, and knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes.

I am not at all in a rush to make a career that only lasts for a short span of time.

I think I'm a man about the things I need to be a man about, but I get paid to play, pretty much. I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.

At KIND, our purpose is to spark kindness.

I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.

The only thing I'm sure of is that I want to keep doing work that speaks to me.

I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

I think putting your fingerprints on life in general speaks more value than this game of basketball can speak.

You want to be part of something like that, that's something bigger than yourself, that's something you leave a legacy of being part of something special.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

There is a beauty and a special quality in being what I am. I know it, and I've learned how to use it.

I want to do something really special in my life.

People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.