Life Objectives Quotes

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

I don't like to say where I'll be in 10 years.

You have a certain number of dreams in your life you want to fulfill.

Everyone wants you to define your life until the end of your life.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

I don't have a bucket list.

A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which isn't true. There is a very diverse group of people in both groups in terms of income, objectives in life, aspirations, cultural wants, habits, all the things that make us unique Americans.

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.

I have to say, I've never been the girl that's had the five-year plan, the 10-year plan, and I'm still not.

I've never had a plan for the future.

I don't really sit there and think, 'What would I like my life to be?'

God’s purpose is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”2 That is fundamental to all we do. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that we find fascinating or become so consumed by mundane responsibilities that we lose sight of God’s objectives. As you consistently focus your life on the most basic principles, you will gain an understanding of what you are to do, and you will produce more fruit for the Lord and more happiness for yourself.

I don't ever really list things that I want to do. The only two things that I've ever wanted to do are be in a rock band and be a wrestler. Those were my two goals.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

What are we here for except the offices?

It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

You know, in terms of accomplishments and things like that, I feel like I've accomplished what I've wanted.