Aim Quotes

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

One of the most powerful forces in the world is the will of men and women who believe in themselves, who dare to hope and aim high, who go confidently after the things they want from life.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

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

Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

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?

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

Be black, shine, aim high.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.