Quotes About Purpose

I do more than just football. Yes, it's a big part of my life. Faith, family, who I am as a person, what I do off the field, my friends, my time, my dogs - it's more than just football.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we relate to each other?

The big thing is that you know what you want.

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

There is a bigger plan for us. There is some reason we haven't had a kid. Our kid hasn't come yet for some reason. We really believe that.

I enjoy every second I get in the ring. But there's a bigger picture now and a much bigger purpose to everything, and it's to take care of my kids and my wife and make sure they have a good future.

You can never... any job you do, you can never think about the bigger picture.

I did learn that there's a bigger picture than just being the best at your sport.

Why should someone who has $5 billion only give away $2.5 billion? They can't take it with them.

I don't want to be a billionaire and do work which I am not happy about. I'd rather do the work that I am happy about.

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!' And I was like, 'Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.'

My career may look bizarre to some, but I have very strong reasons for doing every single job I've done.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

We've been called, and He has blessed.

I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime.

I was never going to be a rocket scientist. But I found the field that I was blessed to be able to do, and I just put my whole effort into that.

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die.

It's an amazing blessing to do something you love.