Aim Quotes
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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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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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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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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 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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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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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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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 condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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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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We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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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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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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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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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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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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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.
