Quotes About Purpose

I am not interested in being a star.

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

I'm not interested in the what-do-you-do-for-a-living questions.

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

It is really amazing what you can do with your body and learning that your body has skills and a purpose, as a woman you are always taught that your body is like in the way, too big or just not perfect.

Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

I started in movies in 1963, and the first big one was 'Rosemary's Baby' in 1967. While you don't notice it right away, it finally dawns on you that 80% of the time, you're doing nothing.

Absolutely, at a macro-level, I want our firm to be a purpose-led firm. This notion of making an impact that matters, I want that embedded in whatever we do.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

Some jobs you do because they pay the bills. Other jobs nourish the soul.

Everything in a novel has to be intentional, even the things that aren't.

No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.

At 23, I know I'm nowhere close to where I want to be and where I need to be and where I'm going to be.

Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next.

My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.

There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.

I believe life is a gift, and I want to live it productively. I am not into this numbers game.

I never played for numbers.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.