purpose Quotes

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.