| "The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers." »Earl Nightingale |
| "Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| "To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object." »Simone de Beauvoir |
| "The education of the will is the object of our existence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Never fight an inanimate object." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "My object all sublime I shall achieve in time..." »W. S. Gilbert |
| "The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye." »Elizabeth Bowen |
| "Education has for its object the formation of character." »Herbert Spencer |
| "It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them." »Man Ray |
| "The object of the superior man is truth." »Confucius |
| "Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind." »George Washington Allston |
| "What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be" »Chauncey Wright |
| "The great object is, that every man be armed. ... Every one who is able may have a gun." »Patrick Henry |
| "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." »Robert Hutchins |
| "Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object Producing Unity of Being." »Hakim Jami |
| "An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." »Pliny the Younger |
| "When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object." »Milan Kundera |
| "One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater." »Marquis de Sade |
| "The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions." »Bishop Creighton |
| "There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all." »Sydney Smith |
| "It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon." »John Christian Bovee |
| "Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated." »Miguel de Unamuno |
| "The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form." »Francois Delsarte |
| "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." »Joel Hawes |
| "I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." »John Constable |
| "To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us." »Charles Caleb Colton |
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