Aim Quotes

• The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

  

  William Bolitho
  • Girl
  • Strong
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Children
  • Teacher

• And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Respect
  • Security
  • Rich

• Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Remember
  • Painting
  • Secret

• Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Country
  • Ends
  • Aim

• Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • May
  • Stills
  • Feet

• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Aim
  • Plans

• Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Clear
  • Standards

• Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Writing
  • May
  • Attributes

• The aim of living is life itself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Aim

• Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Believe
  • Aim
  • Great Things

• Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Forget
  • Forgotten
  • Evil People

• If you allow one little sin to creep into your life, and think it doesn't matter, it will grow and grow until it affects your whole spiritual life, deflecting you from your primary aim of serving God.

  

  Angus Buchan
  • Sin
  • Aim
  • Serving

• In keeping with our aim to start construction on the new Family Center sometime in 2006, the dress for our Building Hope dinner will be construction casual, with tool belts and hard hats optional.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Family
  • Hope
  • Construction

• The Internet can empower groups whose aims are in fact antithetical to democracy.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Democracy
  • Internet
  • Aim

• You must always aim for further growth.

  

  Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
  • Growth
  • Aim

• "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Childhood
  • Pride
  • Birth

• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Books
  • Students
  • Aim

• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Danger
  • Aim
  • Achieving

• Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

  

  Chai Lu
  • Enough
  • Careful
  • Competence

• So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Long
  • Audience
  • Values

• The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership...

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • People
  • Work
  • Church

• Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

  

  Tony Blair
  • Intelligent
  • Nations
  • Educated

• No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Theory
  • Fit
  • Scientist

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