Quotes About Purpose

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

I feel my job as an actor is about more than just stepping on stage and taking a role.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

I'm actually really excited to be off of 'General Hospital' because I know God orders my steps, and this only means He has a new adventure for me.

Everything happens for a reason. Like when Im asked if I regret not taking the next steps as a rugby player. Well, If I had I likely wouldn't have done what I have in darts.

I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.

When there is no coherent strategy, tactics, no matter how flashily executed, become meaningless.

The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Or is it the other way around—are they supposed to serve us? Let us resolve to ask that far-reaching question again: For whom does America exist? This time around, there can be only one possible answer.

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

revised them to suit Zen purposes.

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

Where am I? Where am I in relation to God, to myself, and to others? These are the basic questions of human life.