Quotes About Purpose

How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?'

This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.

In some strange way, this was meant to be.

The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.

I am so pleased and happy, and I believe that the Almighty God has a plan for our nation by putting us in strategic positions in politics, business, and everywhere.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

Life presents itself first and foremost as a task. We take no pleasure in it except when we are striving after something.

Unlike de Valera whose talent lay in getting and holding power, Collins asked himself the question, 'All this for what?', and tried to provide the answers.

In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are.

On a team, in business, in any group, you'll have those who are there for the paycheck, and those who understand the mission.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose.

meaning is one of our greatest needs, and when it's fulfilled, we can endure any type of suffering with dignity.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose."73

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries."72

There are right ways and wrong ways to give. In most cases, the difference lies in the motivation behind it. Always scrutinize the why behind the what.

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.