John C. Maxwell Quotes

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.

The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.

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.

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

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

You dream what you're supposed to do.

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

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 don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

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

I feel everyone is put here for a reason. Everyone has a calling. I always thought my real calling was to help other people.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

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

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.

Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

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

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

I can't just look at my position as a job. It's my passion.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.