Quotes About Purpose

Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.

I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around anything I don't have to. I want to travel light.

Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?

'Housefull' is made with the express purpose of being an entertaining, time-pass film. No one is supposed to search for great art in this series.

I've always been a great believer that you work as hard as you can and try to have some direction in your life.

I was having all these thoughts, not really sure what I was doing in school. And I just said, 'I'm gonna go out and climb.' I had this great day with a friend, bouldering and rooting each other on, and I came back thinking, 'I don't like the way it feels to be competitive. I don't want to be ruled by it.'

If you're just making a record to pay the bills, that's not a great idea because chances are it might not come out that good.

There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do.

I want to be a great person, not just a great artist.

As designers, we have a great responsibility.

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

There's got to be something greater than us.

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

God's work was what I felt was the greater work.

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

I know that if you don't have Christ in your life then all the hope you have and the greatest thing you can gain is what you get from this earth.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

If the country is going to be great, everybody has a gift, and I tell every child I meet, whether they have asked me or not, 'You have greatness inside you, and your job is to figure out what that is, dig it out, and give it to the world. Because the world needs everything, every one of you.'