John Eldredge Quotes

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

I want to figure out myself as a man.

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

I like to spread myself out. Since I was a kid, I always recognized some void.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.