Bob Goff Quotes

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant 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.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

We all have a gift; we all have a passion - it's just about finding it and going into it. Being an asset to your family and community.

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.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?

This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found where I belong. You can cut back to photos of me holding, uh, paper championships. That was truly my dream. This is what I was born to do. As far as walking away from all this to do something else, I don't..I just don't...I don't see the rationality.

"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it. And what's more, that somebody else might be a figment of our own imagination, and maybe a prisoner of it as well.

The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.

Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Suddenly everything came together in one place. All my likes, everything I actually seemed to have talent for was right there. I said, "Hey, this is it. I can do this really well. I really love to do it."

My vocation, at last I have found it; my vocation is love.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.