Quotes About Aim

Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life.

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of Nature.

Non-presuppositional defenses of the faith tend to be too concessive to the unbeliever's aim and aim to simply show Christianity as probably true. They do not leave the unbeliever "without excuse," but suggest implicitly that he has the prerogative and ability to stand in judgement over God's own Word.

Deadshot you're not.

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

My aim in this book has been throughout an historical, not an apologetic aim.

Hey gunslinger... nice shot.

We aim to please. So you aim, too, please. I saw that once on a sign. Over a urinal!

That's a gun scope.

He might have reached for that

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

As a politician, I worked very, very hard in order to maintain the unity of our country. That was my aim.

Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.

When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.

Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.

Happiness the aim of life. Virtue the foundation of happiness Utility the test of virtue . . . Virtue consists in Prudence Temperance Fortitude Justice90

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

The greatest missile in the world is useless...unless it's targeted. A torpedo is adrift unless it has someplace to go. An arrow is pointless unless it hits something. So it's important for kids—for everyone, even if you fail at first—to target something and head in that direction. With all your might.

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Nunca me preocuparé de que mis metas sean demasiado elevadas, puesto que, ¿no es mejor acaso apuntar mi lanza a la luna y herir solamente a un águila que apuntar mi lanza al águila y pegarle solamente a una roca?