Aim Quotes

• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Motivational
  • Determination

• Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Work
  • Productive
  • Endeavor

• Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reading
  • Inspiration
  • Exercise

• Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Crosses
  • Currents
  • Filipino

• The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Life
  • Success
  • Goal

• No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Purpose
  • Prove
  • Certainty

• I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Movies
  • Lifetime
  • Aim

• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Learn

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

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Alone

• It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Powerful
  • Students
  • Respectful

• When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Enemy
  • Cutting
  • Imagine

• Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Small
  • Aim

• Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Small

• Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.

  

  Eglantyne Jebb
  • Children
  • Suffering
  • Impossible

• Our eventual aim is simply stated - that there should be no safe haven for terrorists anywhere in the world. We say to the people of Afghanistan: 'You have been ill served by those who have made your country a centre for terrorism across the world. As soon as this stops, the world will work with you to build a better future for you and for your children.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • People
  • Time
  • Media

• Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

  

  Leonard Woolf
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Scale

• The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Determination
  • Aim
  • Important Thing

• My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Experience
  • Positive
  • Aim

• If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic - to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Exist
  • Aware
  • Devils

• It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

  

  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
  • War
  • Destroy
  • Militarism

• It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Aim
  • Photographer
  • Exposure

• The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Strategy
  • Humanitarian
  • Diplomacy

• 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.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Attention
  • Aim

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