Aim Quotes
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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The greatest 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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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
