Quotes About Purpose

I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be - or as John Doe says in 'Seven,' 'We are not what was intended.'

I have a short time to play this game. I'm trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

I don't dream small. But then, what are we without our dreams?

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

I think people come into our lives for a reason, and we can learn from them, and they have lessons to teach us.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with 'our' planet? In my opinion, yes.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

I'm somebody who gets up every day and says, 'What am I going to do today, and how am I going to do it?' I think it moves me toward some outcome I'm hoping for and also has some, you know, some joy attached to it.

While the things that motivate us differ greatly from one person to the next, the outcomes do not.

We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.