Quotes About Purpose

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

In times of stress, I frequently remind myself that I'm doing what I want to do most and that's what really counts.

I always remind my team to take a step back and ask themselves, 'Why are we doing this?' For us, 100% of the time, it is to better serve our patients, consumers, and customers. This is a great question to come back to when your team is losing focus; it reduces stress and mobilizes people to get excited about the collective possibility.

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?

If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job.

I think, like for me 'Strictly' was a big thing that I'd wanted to do for years and I've done that now and now I'm like 'okay, what should I do?'

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

You live only once so always strike a balance and when you have abundance, contribute as much as you can.

What strikes me as most significant is that young people everywhere in India are anxious to do something. But I have also felt they are not quite clear in their mind as to what they should do.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn't speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.

Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

I believe that every single person was brought into this world for a purpose and that we should never leave the world as we found it, we should always strive to make a positive change.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

We have to always set an aspiration for ourselves and then strive to get there.

Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.

Our business isn't to be famous: that's not what we do; that's not what we strive for.

Doubt has purpose sometimes. If we don't think our work is good enough, we strive to do better and be better. Which then makes us better because practice does just that.

I strive every day to do things that make a difference.

Most importantly, I strive for function above all in every house.