Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

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.

I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

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

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.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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

I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

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.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

Everybody has a purpose.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

You have a deeper purpose that drives you. You have to talk to yourself about what that purpose is. If you run through like a hamster to chase fame or money, you might end up wasting your life away. You find what drives you and gives you energy.

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.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

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

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.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.