Quotes About Purpose

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.

I was not driven by fame and fortune.

I'm in this to change my life, to change my fortunes. I'm not in there to just fight for free.

If you're clear on what you believe, you have a great foundation to go make a market.

I love what I do; that is the foundation of whatever I do.

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.

Man was created to frame the woman.

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that person.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

Right after 'Friday Night Lights' ended, I was in sort of an existential crisis.

I like being at the front - it's where I'm meant to be.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

Being just an actor would be quite frustrating.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.