Tom Petty Quotes

I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.

Every morning I have something to do, I'm better off. It's bad to get up and not have something to do.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.

There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.

I just really work hard on myself every day.

I've always been a great believer that you work as hard as you can and try to have some direction in your life.