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Quotes About Aim

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
~ Graham Greene
Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.
~ Ivor Cutler
from a bow, and had
~ J.D. Robb
I personally haven't heard anything, but WWE haven't exactly been quiet about the fact that their aim is to do a full time UK brand show. They have been quite open about that from the start.
~ Pete Dunne
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
~ Johan Huizinga
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
~ Al-Farabi
A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
~ Abbott Lawrence Lowell
The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
~ Johan Huizinga
The end and aim of all science is to find the unity, the One out of which the manifold is being manufactured, that One existing as many.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we'll get better results.
~ Ted Chiang
Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.
~ Tim Armstrong
If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.
~ Bat Masterson
Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.
~ Confucius
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
~ Thomas Carlyle
There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess
~ Mortimer Collins
Many set themselves the aim of rescuing the indifferent and the lazy—and end up lost themselves. The flame within them gets dim with the passage of time. So, if you have the fire, run, since you never know when it may be doused, leaving you stranded in darkness.
~ Neal Stephenson
Anyone who can't afford to depend on serendipity would say you have to identify your target or goal in advance.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Knowledge flies the sword true to its aim.
~ Christine Feehan
One ought not to quarrel with the aim of impartiality. It is just that, as an objective, it is harder to attain than its advocates imagine.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Just as a white summer cloud, in harmony with heaven and earth freely floats in the blue sky from horizon to horizon following the breath of the atmosphere – in the same way the pilgrim abandons himself to the breath of the greater life that… leads him beyond the farthest horizons to an aim which is already present within him, though yet hidden from his sight.
~ Lama Govinda
There is a story told of a little blind girl who had five brothers. The brothers, trusting their senses, went out into the world and lost their way, while the little girl, unable to trust her senses, wove a thread of gold. Attaching one end to her finger, she tied the other to the sun and never lost her way. You, too, can learn to trust the light of consciousness by holding onto the thread that is your aim and not allowing yourself to become enmeshed in the evidence of your senses.
~ Goddard Neville
I begin with a singular and passionate conviction: that the proper aim of all true theology is doxology. Theology that does not begin and end in worship is not biblical at all, but is rather the product of western philosophy.
~ Gordon D. Fee