Quotes About Aim

The ideal aim of life is] to learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy!

It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

Style is the ultimate morality of mind." ... [It has] a double aim of complete fidelity to fact and to one's complex sense of fact. ... We are shooting at a star when we aim at style in this sense; we are trying to do justice at once to an infinity without and a near infinity within.

Yes, yes. Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.

Doesn't matter how good your bullets are if you don't aim carefully.

Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

Don't lose sight of the goal

It is good to have a goal. You should hold on to it. People who have lost sight of their goal often begin to live in a careless manner.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow.

The purpose of life is to be purposeful.

Life is all about focusing on the goal, not on the donut hole.

I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

Pray God our aim is straight and true and each arrow finds its mark.

Instead of man being the aim of production, production is the aim of man and wealth the aim of production, instead of tools and the productive mechanism in general liberating man from the slavery of toil, man has become the slave of tools and the industry has become synonymous with business and people have been duped into asking, "what's good for business?" instead of, "what is business good for?

A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.

Traditionally—if such a contraction be allowed—any form of intellectual aim that did not take account of this antecedent, archetypal order of reality would have been considered all but invalid. Now, in many quarters, to give any sort of credence to its effective presence is likely to be seen as a sign of willful eccentricity.

The seventh key is that you must have a major definite purpose for your life. You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal.

it didn't matter how hard you could swing a sword, if you couldn't hit anything.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country, he read. This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.