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Quotes About Aim

no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
~ Napoleon Hill
Success is "the attainment of your desire or definite chief aim without violating the rights of other people." Regardless of what your major aim in life may be, you will attain it with much less difficulty after you learn how to cultivate a pleasing personality and you learn to deal with others without friction or envy.
~ Napoleon Hill
Have a definite purpose — Aim. There are no "Lucky Dogs." Winners are just the Workers with an Aim — that's all. The Successful business men of every city — the largest number of them — had nothing to begin with but a single Aim. What is their story now? The magnificent blocks, and great enterprises that make each city what it is. Have you an Aim? You only need ONE big central Aim. Get it without delay.
~ Napoleon Hill
Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.
~ Neal Shusterman
Don't make me come out there and spray you, blanco. I point at my one eye. "Better have some sharpshooter fucking aim you want that shit to do any good.
~ Charlie Huston
Things are always like that. Our eye sees something; we take a stone and aim at it. But the stone rarely succeeds like the eye in hitting the mark.
~ Chinua Achebe
Only the hand fails to throw as straight as the eye sees.
~ Chinua Achebe
I've got a wife who never misses me. Her aim is perfect!
~ Tommy Cooper
I keep learning from my mistakes, and I take advice from my seniors, and the aim is to be the best in the world across all formats.
~ Babar Azam
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
~ Tom Stoppard
You can't hit a target if you don't know what it is.
~ Tony Robbins
Without naïveté, father and son would have been defeated; had they aimed lower, according to the logic of probability, they would have failed.
~ Kiran Desai
One should never think that man can reach perfection, he can only aim at completion – not to be perfect but to be complete. That would be the necessity and the indispensable condition if there were any question of perfection at all. For how can you perfect a thing if it is not complete?
~ Carl Jung
Why should I still work with enthusiasm when someone has been promoted who doesn't really deserve it? In fact, I no longer love; I am unable to. But this inability to love is quite crucial because it leaves me with an enormous feeling of indifference. Whether I like it or not, love is the aim of my life, the reason for my existence, the only thing that really satisfies me.
~ Carlo Carretto
I can still aim and fire a pastry gun of filling into a deviled egg straighter and faster than Wyatt Earp ever shot his .45.
~ Carolyn McSparren
who aimeth at the sky, Shoots higher than he that means a tree.
~ George Herbert
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
Years later he would add that Italians have "no other aim than to live" because they "discovered a long time ago that there is only one life and that certainty has made them allergic to cruelty.
~ Gerald Martin
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
~ Edmund Burke
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
~ Blaise Pascal