Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

Everybody has a purpose.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

The first year I was in New York, I met Martha Graham. She said, 'Well, Mr. Wilson, what do you want to do in life?' I was 21 years old, and I said, 'I have no idea.' And she said, 'If you work long enough and hard enough, you'll find something.'

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

I want to do really good things with my life.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.