Aim Quotes

• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Aim
  • Accomplish
  • Transient

• 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

• 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 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

• There is no art without a poetic aim.

  

  Edouard Vuillard
  • Art
  • Aim
  • Poetic

• I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Song

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Jane Austen
  • Solitude
  • Aim
  • Excessive

• 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

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Aim
  • Opponents

• 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

• At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Aim
  • Cinema

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

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Character
  • Aim
  • Formation

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Reading
  • Gossip
  • Odd

• The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Education
  • College

• 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

• 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

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