Quotes About Purpose

I want to do good work in the world.

As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

I don't want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it.

My work has never been about me, and I've never made a big deal about my race. I've actually tried hard to avoid ever making a big deal out of it and have, instead, simply tried to do good work that matters.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

Lookit!" he said, pounding a nearby table. "My job is not to deal with this people thing! My job is to kill the enemy!

As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

To live is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet.

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We search to become human in a world that tempts us always to be less than human or looks to us to be more. We search to love and to be loved. And in a world where it is often hard to believe in much of anything, we search to believe in something holy and beautiful and life-transcending that will give meaning and purpose to the lives we live.

The place God calls us to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

It seems to me almost before the Bible says anything else, it is saying that—how important it is to be alive and to pay attention to being alive, pay attention to each other, pay attention to God as he moves and as he speaks. Pay attention to where life or God has tried to take you.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

He who has a Why can endure any How.

nihilism represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals—because we must experience nihilism before we can find out what value these values really had.'— We require, sometime, new values.