David Starr Jordan Quotes

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.

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

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

Being a mom has made me feel more like a grown-up. I was always a kid at heart. It makes me feel like I did my purpose in life.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

Life is a mission, not a career.

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

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.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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.

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.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

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