Howard Thurman Quotes

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

There comes a turning point in the life of every person when he reflects on his journey and work and ponders on the next road to take. Is this the pinnacle, the ultimate? What next?

I knew from a young age what I wanted to do, but that's not the case for everyone. Some go through different paths to reach their destination.

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

I'm starting to think about my life, thinking about where I'm going to be in three years time: who I'm going to be with, where I'm going to be situated myself.

I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'How did I get here?'

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

Any decision I make is the biggest decision of my life.

It's always good to find out what you don't want to do.