Aim Quotes

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.

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

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.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.

[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.

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.

An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.

I aim to be a competitive nation.

Our aim is a democratic peace.

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

If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

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

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

I aim to help the Germans and the Europeans successfully travel all the way down the path toward European integration, and I can do this more effectively if I don't commit myself to a party.

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.

I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

Bin Laden was once targeted by President Clinton. President Clinton wanted to kill him but couldn't get him. Of course not, we all know what kind of aim Clinton has.

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

Nurses never tell you what they know. They're hired for their cheeriness and the thickness of their hair. They need to look alive and healthy, to give the patients something to aim for.

Don't aim too high, but set yourself a goal which is a little bit out of your reach. You might achieve it and then you can set a new goal.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.

To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.