Quotes About Purpose

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

If you feel that . . . what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either.

I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose

It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.

To dream alone is fantasy if it doesn't move the heart to act.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

Gabriel: What's the point of having power, if one cannot use it? What's the point of immortality, if one cannot truly live?

The Clowns were Hungry. They did not want to wait to be fed. But when they sated there hunger, they wanted it to be in the right way, for the right reasons. They could wait . The Grace Keepers

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given.

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

When you're gone would you rather have your gravestone say, 'He never missed a meeting.' Or one that said, 'He was a great father.'

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

I've got a lot to look forward to. I'm trying to be the best father I can, and that's a pretty important role. Some would say it's more important than stopping pucks.

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.