Top 100 Life Aim Quotes
#1. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much life. Aim above morality.
Colin Higgins
#2. God created each of us with different traits and characteristics, but regardless of what they may be, know that He made you perfect and has equipped you with every tool to accomplish your purpose in life. Aim High and Dream Big!
Augusta DeJuan Hathaway
#3. The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
Edward Young
#4. Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow
Then draw it to the head and let it go!
Henry Van Dyke
#5. To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
P.B. Kerr
#6. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.
Romare Bearden
#8. Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only aim and end of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please anyone.
Louisa May Alcott
#9. ... The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. ... The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.
David O. McKay
#10. The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.
Frances Perkins
#11. Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More worthy of Thy name.
Johann Caspar Lavater
#12. Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
#13. What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.
J.I. Packer
#14. Everything in life tries to hit us hard. We feel like dying. But instead fight back hard to survive. After all surviving was the only aim of everything." - Vishnu Kanchan
Vishnu Kanchan
#15. If you believe in yourself, nothing is impossible. Without a dream you cannot have an aim and without an aim you cannot achieve and to dream you must have faith in yourself.
Koyel Mitra
#16. Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#17. A well-rounded approach to Bible study recognizes that the Bible is always more concerned with the decision-maker than with the decision itself. Its aim is to change our hearts so that we desire what God desires, rather than to spoon-feed us answers to every decision in life.
Jen Wilkin
#18. It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.
Vivek Pereira
#19. The ascetic ideal has an aim - this goal is, putting it generally, that all the other interests of human life should, measured by its standard, appear petty and narrow; it explains epochs, nations, men, in reference to this one end; it forbids any other interpretation, any other end; it
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.
Khem Veasna
#23. Don't you think there are two great
things in life that we ought to aim at - truth and kindness? Let's
have both if we can, but let's be sure of having one or the other.
E. M. Forster
#24. Knowing someone is the first goal of therapy. Modulating emotionality - whether by relatedness or psychopharmacology or both - is second. Therapy's last and most ambitious aim is revising the neural code that directs an emotional life. (176)
Thomas Lewis
#25. A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.
Karl G. Maeser
#26. The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova
#27. The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God ... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.
Jerry Bridges
#28. How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?
Rebecca Goldstein
#30. My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
#31. Think about spirit even when you are not beset by adversity. Engage in activities that inspire you and aim to maintain high motivation for life. In addition to enhancing your life presently, these skills can be a well-developed resource to draw upon when challenges arise.
Charles E. Dodgen
#32. Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,
than Romeo.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!
Avijeet Das
#34. I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
Oswald Chambers
#35. Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.
Ludwig Von Mises
#37. (...) all men are united in one common effort to survive on this earth. All men share a common human necessity, a common human aim. All men are equally entitled to life, and therefore to the necessities of life.
Rose Wilder Lane
#38. My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.
John Wesley
#39. Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I sometimes pass the whole day without coming across a single one. It makes one so nervous about the future.
Gyles Brandreth
#41. Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life-
Sai Baba
#42. If you cannot see the rainbow because your face is down, don't argue that no rainbow is up there. Lift up your passion and take your dreams off the ground!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
Jack Kornfield
#44. Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. The ultimate aim is reverence for the universe.
The ultimate aim is love for life.
The ultimate aim is harmony within oneself.
Helene Cardona
#46. I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.
Anne Bronte
#48. If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.
Angus Buchan
#49. The reason most people give up so fast is that they look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.
Anonymous
#50. The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
Aubrey De Grey
#52. That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller.
Gillian Flynn
#53. The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
William Barclay
#54. My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
Charles Saatchi
#55. Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.
Robert Schumann
#56. Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.
Art Linkletter
#57. Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.
Les Brown
#58. Gifted with a liberty they know not how to use; with a power and energy they know not how to apply; with a life whose purpose and aim they comprehend not; they drag through their useless and convulsed existence. Byron
Charles Eliot
#59. If only education will aim at teaching learners' real life and life in books and not just books, learners will learn and understand real life and not just books, and they will dare to face life with real life lessons and lessons from books!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#60. The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.
Bertrand Russell
#61. The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
Orison Swett Marden
#62. When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
Tennessee Williams
#63. It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone ... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
W. Edwards Deming
#64. The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
William Bolitho
#65. Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.
Gage Taylor
#66. Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away.
The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.
Louis Sachar
#67. If your aim is life is pursuing truth, one of the things you might want to study is why deception is so common in life.
Eugene Burger
#68. Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
E. M. Forster
#69. When I met you I was moving like a blind arrow shot in time of need. I was flint-sharp, flint-primitive. I was aim, arrow, and target. I wanted to be wounded again. I did not want to seal myself against life. I would rather be cut than dry.
Jeanette Winterson
#70. Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.
Marcus Aurelius
#72. To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
Milarepa
#73. The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
George Horace Lorimer
#74. If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.
Anuj
#75. A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
Aristotle.
#76. While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial right of every human being. The ultimate aim of medicine remains the defence and promotion of life.
Pope Francis
#77. The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.
Erich Fromm
#78. The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.
Larissa MacFarquhar
#79. When your hobby becomes your work, life automatically transforms into a never ending holiday
Anamika Mishra
#80. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
#82. What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
George Eliot
#83. People have their purposes and reasons, I just wish I found mine.
Anthony Liccione
#84. Our ultimate aim in life is not to be healthy, wealthy, prosperous, or problem free. Our ultimate aim in life is to bring glory to God.
Anne Graham Lotz
#85. I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim.
Trey Songz
#88. Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
Nathan Deal
#89. I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace.
Marc Forster
#90. Nothing is more important than living an important life.
M.F. Moonzajer
#91. One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
#93. The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
G.K. Chesterton
#94. Don't aim for perfection. Evolution, and life, only happen through mistakes. 31.
Matt Haig
#95. That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
Henry David Thoreau
#97. A PRAYER FOR TODAY Lord God, my aim is to be a good and faithful servant of Yours. I surrender all of my life to You and to Your ends ... . Amen.
Kurt Bjorklund
#98. Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care
Napoleon Hill
#99. Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Gretchen Rubin
#100. The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
