High Aims Quotes

#1. Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. He who wins people, prospers; he who loses them, fails. Your present plan should be to seek humans of high aims and farseeing views, and you can establish yourself firmly.

Zhou Yu

#4. High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Tryon Edwards

#5. If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#6. Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Maya Angelou

#7. Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

Hannah More

#8. Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy.

Aman Jassal

#9. A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.

M.F. Moonzajer

#10. When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with ...

Lorrie Moore

#11. Envy aims very high.

Ovid

#12. Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying - and you have to keep trying - eventually you will come across the next item on your list.

Jonathan Nolan

#13. After me there are no more jazz singers ... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Betty Carter

#14. He who aims too high will get a sore neck

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

#15. In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#16. Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

Katharine Graham

#17. I want to lead a nation where anyone who aims high can achieve their dreams.

Andrea Leadsom

#18. Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

Ramana Maharshi

#19. Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Vladimir Putin

#20. Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

James Baker

#21. Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

Jane Fonda

#22. The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

Helen Mirren

#23. Therefore, if you are attacked, retaliate instantly. Be sudden. Be quick. Speed is your salvation.

Jeff Cooper

#24. In a world of infinite choice, context - not content - is king.

Chris Anderson

#25. Old physicist joke: they knew that the approach worked in practice, but could they make it work in theory?

Walter Isaacson

#26. If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#27. Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

Shukla Bose

#29. The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.

Michaelangelo