Steve Gleason Quotes

I realized that my purpose really is to inspire people.

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.

I'm motivated to keep going to keep making a difference in people's lives.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

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.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

If you do the things you enjoy and are good at, I really have a feeling that that will lead to having a fulfilling life, and people with fulfilling lives are able to be 'good people.'

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.