Aim Quotes

• ...should We consent to an order of Cincinnati consisting of all the Officers of the Army & Citizens of Consiquence in the united States; how easy the Transition from a Republican to any other Form of Government, however despotic! & how rediculous to exchange a british Administration, for one that would be equally tyrannical, perhaps much more so? this project may answer the End of Courts that aim at making Us subservient to their political purposes, but can never be consistent with the Dignity or Happiness of the united States.

  

  Elbridge Gerry
  • Government
  • Happiness
  • Army

• 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

• The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Unique
  • Individual
  • Historian

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

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Life
  • Aim
  • Self-Preservation

• Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Fiction
  • Distinction
  • Memoir

• There is no art without a poetic aim.

  

  Edouard Vuillard
  • Art
  • Aim
  • Poetic

• Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.

  

  George Washington
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Circumstances

• It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Truth
  • Value
  • Beauty

• My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Satisfied
  • Collectors
  • Painting Machine

• A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Aim
  • Obedient
  • Discriminate

• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Love
  • Man

• My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Thinking
  • Regret
  • Aim

• I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Singing

• The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.

  

  Enos Mills
  • Aim
  • Illuminate
  • Alluring

• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Story
  • Company
  • Conversation

• It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.

  

  Adolphus Busch
  • Beer
  • Aim
  • Side

• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Solitude
  • Aim
  • Excessive

• Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Learning
  • Projects
  • Relocation

• The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Mankind
  • Socialism
  • Isolation

• But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.

  

  William Croswell Doane
  • Life
  • Motivational
  • Atmosphere

• Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Aim
  • Opponents

• Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket.

  

  Winfield Scott Hancock
  • Aim
  • Dignity

• Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Purpose
  • Beauty
  • Aim

• People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim.

  

  Arfa Karim
  • Genius
  • Aim
  • Polishing

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