Quotes About Purpose

All was lost now. All the dreams of whatever God had created for them, lost. He wondered in that moment why it was that he had been born and survived the war, only to meet this fate, here, in his home country. Maybe he had never had a life, but was only a figurine played out on a master game board.

Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

I love life because what more is there?

You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

You also have a part to play in this adventure, and that part was written for you before you long before you were born.' 'Are you saying I have no choice?' 'We all have choices. But our decisions are already known.

You know the trouble with this part of the world? It's full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.

What exactly was the point? And more pertinently, what the hell was I doing here? How had I allowed my life to come to this?

He was someone who was only fully alive when he was working on a case. He needed there to have been a murder or some other violent crime. It was his entire raison d'être – another posh phrase which I am sure he would have hated.

if you're going to shoot, shoot.

I'm someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

'Retirement' is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.

Some people feel that the purpose of cinema is entertainment - which in itself is a healthy enough goal, provided you define what constitutes entertainment. But I come from a family where I grew up believing that cinema - art - should be used as an instrument for change and that's the kind of cinema I've largely done and been attracted to.

An exceptional career is one that provides an opportunity to serve. It is a satisfying career in which you can't wait to get up in the morning to begin! You have a sense of purpose and mission. You know why you do what you do. It is a response to a call to serve. Once we do that, everything flows positively.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

I am drawn to public service.

I don't want to dedicate my life to getting publicity.

I don't live for publicity or glory.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.