Quotes About Purpose

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

After I got my first job in a restaurant, it just clicked. I was like, this is it, this is what I want to do.

Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.

There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

One of the things I love most about Lib Dem members is that for all our policy disagreements, we agree on why we're Lib Dems in the first place.

I never wanted to be a fighter in the first place.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

I really don't care what I look like as long as it fits with the thing I'm working on.

I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'

I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

I think, no matter who you are, at some point in your life you've probably said, 'OK, well, who am I, and where do I fit in?'

Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we going to do now?' I wanted to go live somewhere for a while, learn archaeology, or take part in healing the world on some level. I wanted to dig deep and say, 'Who am I now? What do I have to offer? What do I have to learn?'

You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.