Martin Sheen Quotes

I'm very glad to have something to be passionate about. I can't imagine a life without passion.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

In life, you find things that hold value to you. You find things to fight for.

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

You have to know why you get up every morning.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

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.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

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

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.