Top 100 Quotes About Aim
#1. I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
Oswald Chambers
#2. Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
Deepak Chopra
#3. Aim for the eye." I say as Marek aims his sniper, "Alright Enya he says as we observe the werewolf down below our watch tower eventually Marek fires he's hit something. I look through my binoculars he's hit it...Just not where I said.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#4. Remember, the things with which we choose to surround ourselves tell our story. Let's hope it's not "I choose to live in the past," or "I can't finish the projects I start." Instead, let's aim for something like, "I live lightly and gracefully, with only the objects I find functional or beautiful.
Francine Jay
#5. Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.
Ralph Fiennes
#6. I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.
Chris Matakas
#7. If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#8. The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.
Danielle LaPorte
#10. I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
Anita Desai
#11. One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
Quintilian
#12. 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
#13. I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success.
Jim Shaw
#14. Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#15. Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
Karl Rove
#16. My folks built blood into the foundations of this country and I don't aim to see them torn down for no reason whatsoever.
Louis L'Amour
#17. Don't let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.
Gary Keller
#18. Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
Frederick William Robertson
#19. Orion:"Where shall I shoot him?"
Eros grinned. "Considering he won't even feel the arrow, take your pick. I know what I would aim at.
Tina Folsom
#20. The aim of tai chi is not to strike first to gain dominance over an opponent, but to wait and hit at the right moment.
Guo Guangchang
#22. We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.
Seth
#23. There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
Nelson Mandela
#24. The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.
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Michaelangelo
#25. She understood that she must not write merely to win fame for herself or even for the higher motive of pure pleasure in her work. She must aim, however humbly, to help her readers to higher planes of thought and endeavor. Then and only then would it be worth while.
L.M. Montgomery
#26. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
#27. My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.
Jack Kevorkian
#28. My whole aim in whatever I say, whatever I do, is to follow the peaceful line of having people live together ... If we can all play in that game, the world will be a better place.
Cat Stevens
#29. The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.
Francis Galton
#30. Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.
Alan Alda
#31. The only way to truly escape the mundane is for you to constantly be evolving. Whether you choose to aim high, or aim low. Enjoy each day for what it is.
Ryohgo Narita
#33. The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.
Wassily Kandinsky
#34. The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction.
Wendell Berry
#35. I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.
John Carpenter
#37. To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as an aim, and then study to make all effort toward it play or recreation. The moment it becomes hard work, we are not advancing.
Prentice Mulford
#38. Have your vote. But know this: if you come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him, I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake. My aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die.
Ilona Andrews
#39. Simply put, DHARMA is Dhya (Aim) mein (unto) raman (walkabout) - Sojourn Unto the [Ultimate] Aim [the Truth of What Is- God].
Fakeer Ishavardas
#42. The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
Vladimir Lenin
#44. Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.
Thomas Jefferson
#45. Entrepreneurs stand out from the rest of the pack because they are not afraid to take big risks and they aim to please no one except the people who truly matter.
Kathryn Finney
#46. Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.
David Simon
#47. From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.
Marat Safin
#48. Science ... means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.
Max Planck
#49. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.
T. Boone Pickens
#50. The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
Denis Diderot
#51. My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.
Yaacov Agam
#52. [Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism.
Nicholas Gane
#53. This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings
honors, treasures, beautiful women
accessible even to cowards.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
Arthur Henderson
#55. I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
Sara Blakely
#56. When Phoebe glanced back at the marquess he swiftly lifted that rogue lock of hair, pointed at his forehead and mouthed: Good aim. She clapped a hand over her mouth. Dear God, he was sporting a bruise! So that's where she'd clocked him with his hat! And this explained the forelock.
Julie Anne Long
#57. Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh
#58. When I pick a role, one of the things that I aspire to is that somebody's parent will come up to me after the film has come out and say, "My daughter idealizes that character. You're her hero." That's what I aim for. We're in the business of making heroes.
Evangeline Lilly
#59. And what aim in life is more important or sacred than a parental aim?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#60. Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.
King Hussein I
#61. 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
#62. It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
Mstislav Rostropovich
#63. The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory.
John Piper
#64. The underlying aim of practice .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.
Howard Snell
#65. The world makes things for each place. Fish for the sea, Rocs for the mountain skies, and girls with sun in their skin and perfect aim for a desert that doesn't let weakness live.
Alwyn Hamilton
#66. Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.
T. S. Eliot
#67. I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
Rahul Gandhi
#68. To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination of the Palestinian people, in the way Nazism sought the annihilation of the Jews.
Ken Livingstone
#69. When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.
Jacques Wirtz
#70. Big data will never give you big ideas ... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there
Margaret Heffernan
#71. The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.
Friedrich Engels
#72. The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term
Wilfrid
#73. Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B.R. Ambedkar
#74. To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
George Eliot
#75. The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Learned Hand
#76. The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.
Marianne Moore
#78. Then you realize that the preparation and the planning of this small army of people trying to head to the single aim of creating a work that's going to excite people is very risky. Of course, the odds are that it's not going to work out because there are too many possibilities of it going wrong.
Ciaran Hinds
#80. Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.
Wassily Kandinsky
#81. There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
W. Somerset Maugham
#82. There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.
Sri Aurobindo
#83. Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
Michael Servetus
#84. I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
Major Owens
#85. I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.
John Piper
#86. Develop yourself from practice to become exceptional. Aim to be the blue ribbon best.
Mark LaMoure
#87. The goal was to have goals, the aim to have aims. This edict came entangled often in hysteria, the embattled hysteria of those whom experience had taught how little antagonism it takes to wreck a life beyond repair.
Philip Roth
#88. If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!
Avijeet Das
#89. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks Adams
#90. Each day, aim to do something that adds to your legacy or moves you closer to your dreams.
Grant Andrews
#91. That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.
Keith Anderson
#92. My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.
Juliette Binoche
#93. Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#94. The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator, is to convince us that he is not an orator.
G.K. Chesterton
#95. 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
#96. I'm now painting with all the elan of a Marseillais eating soup, which won't surprise you when I tell you I'm painting large sunflowers. The idea? To decorate the studio, now there's hope of Gauguin living here. I aim at a dozen panels of sunflowers in the room I've set aside for Gauguin ...
Vincent Van Gogh
#97. The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps ...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#98. You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.
Mark Twain
#99. But even regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimised - the question involuntarily arises - to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#100. We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
Peter Singer
