David Deida Quotes

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. Do that!

The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

The secret of passion is purpose.

A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.

Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.

The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Not everyone has a purpose.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.