Allan Houston Quotes

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

Everybody has a purpose.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I have a purpose and a meaning in life, and I have to fulfill that. Being a champion is great, but more importantly than that, you get to be an inspiration and a role model to other people.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I want to do really good things with my life.

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.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

Being world's champion is what I set out in life to do. I'm one of the few people on earth that can say they completed, in every aspect, what they wanted to do with their life.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

God created me to delight people with my goals.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.