Best 452 quotes in «aim quotes» category

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at.

My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within

My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.

My aim in life is never to be skinny.

My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.

My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

My aim is to reflect the actual human-scape, a little bit.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and the I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not simply with the doctrine of God’s attributes, but with the living God whose attributes they are.

Our Aim Is God: “We must constantly remember our aim is God. And we must not be concerned with anything that makes us forget Him.”

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.