Quotes About Purpose

My decisions are motivated by my life, my values, and what I stand for, not what I can gain financially from it. This has weeded out the opportunities that I don't care about and has brought on a lot of new opportunities that mean everything to me.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

I had been a zealous writer of journals my whole life, and beginning my newspaper column gave me a huge sense of purpose while enabling me to understand my own emotions by reading them in black and white.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.

I'm a very direct person just generally. I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily. I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it and go on to the next thing.

I think that everything you do, everything that you start and everything that you end, it does that for a reason, and it's to move forward on to the next thing or the next road or the next path or whatever.

The thing that drives people more often than not is they genuinely feel that they can make a difference. So that means there are nice people in politics.

I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.

Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting. But how? These days, our main answer to that is: through work.

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

I knew I had a lot to offer, and it was just about finding my niche and figuring it out.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

I'm just not Mr. Joe that goes to work nine-to-five. I never will be.

What good is power if there's no connection point? My entire style's built around that actual basis.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

I'm conscious that there's only a limited amount that I'll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

As a young boy growing up in Rohtak, India, I had no idea what my life's work would be. But my parents instilled in me something that I have never forgotten: that work must have a sense of purpose beyond mere financial gain; that to be meaningful, work should make a positive and lasting difference in the lives of others.