Ralph Marston Quotes

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

I'm not sure yet what my higher mission is, but I have a feeling it might be great. Before, I thought my mission was death, but now my mission is life.

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

Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

One of the greatest struggles of becoming an adult is figuring out what you want to do and what makes you happy. The courageous thing is to stick with it and see it through and see if you were correct.

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

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

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.

Turning toward what you deeply love saves you

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

Our only purpose in life is growth.

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 didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

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.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

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.

A calling is the place where your gifts, abilities, desires, and feelings of worth all meet. When you follow your calling, you feel at home, at peace - you feel as though you're where you're meant to be.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly dangerous, and I did it because I thought that if I did something that hard and pulled it off, my life was gonna be transformed. And of course, nothing happened. But I get the search for purpose.