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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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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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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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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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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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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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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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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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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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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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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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.
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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 aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
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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 should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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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.
