Skepta Quotes

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

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.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

At some point in your life, you need to sit down and say, 'What do I want to do? How do I want to be remembered? What's my legacy? And what's important to me?'

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

I've found my purpose in life, definitely.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

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

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

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

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

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.

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

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.

The best path through life is the highway.

The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

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.

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