Donald Miller Quotes

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

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

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

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

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.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

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

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.

Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I had no idea what I wanted to be when I was 17. I just knew I wanted to be something larger than myself.

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

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

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