Richard Nelson Bolles Quotes

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.

I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

Our deep desires define us, really.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

Every man has a purpose, something special that he can do better than anyone else. Your work is to discover this, then give yourself to it. The extent to which you use your skills to add to the world determines your happiness.

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

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

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.