Ken Blanchard Quotes

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

Through acting and film, I felt that my life had a sense to it. I felt I had a mission.

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.

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

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

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?

If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

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.

I have to say, I feel a weird sort of calling in filmmaking that I didn't feel with other things. I feel like there are things in life you want to do, and then things you are called to do, and hopefully you can allow yourself to want to do whatever you're called to do.

Eventually, I had to figure out what the hell I was going to do with my life. I needed to find my way back to Fleetwood Mac.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I'm just a young girl trying to fulfill the purpose that's been placed in my heart to do.

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to do.' When I found animation, I knew this was it.

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

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.

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

I received my calling and accepted it at around 18.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

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.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'