Aim Quotes

• The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Different
  • Chance

• Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Genius

• The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.

  

  Bernard d'Espagnat
  • Money
  • Respect
  • Consuming

• The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • War
  • Peace
  • Preparation

• One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.

  

  George Washington
  • Party
  • Opinion
  • Influence

• In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

  

  William Penn
  • Truth
  • Victory
  • Debate

• Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Life
  • Aim
  • Self-Preservation

• The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Character
  • Aim
  • Formation

• Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
  • Art
  • Target
  • Shoot

• Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Aim
  • Block
  • Wood

• It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Heaven
  • Eye

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Facts
  • Number

• I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Consumerism

• In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • School
  • Culture
  • Direction

• If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Radio
  • Aim
  • Recognize

• No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

  

  Arno Gruen
  • Prove
  • Term
  • Weakness

• The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Painting
  • Find
  • Aim

• Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Words

• Our aim is to stop the life cycle of the enemy culture and replace it with our own revolutionary culture. This can be done only by creating perfect disorder within the cycle of the enemy culture's life process and leaving a power vacuum to be filled by our building revolutionary culture.

  

  George Jackson
  • Culture
  • Process
  • Revolutionary

• Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Pride
  • Destruction
  • Guilt

• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Simplicity

• Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you’re never disappointed.

  

  George Blagden
  • Done
  • Disappointed
  • Proactive

• Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women are they, whose sympathies have had the widest culture, whose aims do not end with self, whose philanthropy, though centrifugal, reaches around the globe.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Age
  • Culture
  • Reason

• AIDS is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Aids
  • Emergency
  • Eradication

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