Kevin Rudd Quotes

I was always curious about motivation and intention, and really, that's a lot of what acting is.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Service is a deceptively profound way to prove not only what you can do for the world, but what you can tell the world to expect from you and your ambitions.

It is simply not possible ... to determine the adopter’s specific intentions.

And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.

I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

If you don't know what you want to do, it's harder to do it.

It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

When you have big historic changes, there are going to be ups and downs... There are going to be peaks and valleys. Some things are going to go right. Some things are going to go wrong. But as long as the strategic direction is going in the right way, that's really what you have to judge.

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.

Donald Trump hasn't decided, and most importantly, we don't know if the old rules still apply.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

When things have a meaning for us, we mean (intend, propose) what we do: when they do not, we act blindly, unconsciously, unintelligently.