Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription: Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

Not everyone has a purpose.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

If you don’t know your purpose, discover it, now. The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distractions and detours.