Viola Davis Quotes

I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

Even when I was starting out, I knew there were certain things that I didn't want to do or wanted to do.

Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.

My father always used to ask me what my aim in life is. I used to tell him I don't have any.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’

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.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I didn't want to be an actress. It wasn't a dream. I didn't have any dreams at all.

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.

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

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.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

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

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

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 was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.