Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.
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.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
From the third grade, I knew that I wanted to play in the NFL. It's pretty cool to see the dream about to come to fruition, but it's just a starting point.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.
Happiness is the object and design of our existence.
For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.
Um, you know, I can see myself doing a lot of other things but in my life I've always had one goal throughout my life and that was to play basketball and try to be the best that I can out here at it.
... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life in accordance with God's Will.
To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.
We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
What is the purpose of life? What is the primary objective of life? To live. To sustain itself.
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me the doing what little we can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
