Quotes About Aim

There is no satisfaction like that which comes from the steady, persistent, honest, conscientious pursuit of a noble aim.

The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.

The Master said, 'Can men refuse to assent to the words of strict admonition? But it is reforming the conduct because of them which is valuable. Can men refuse to be pleased with words of gentle advice? But it is unfolding their aim which is valuable. If a man be pleased with these words, but does not unfold their aim, and assents to those, but does not reform his conduct, I can really do nothing with him.

It is the aim of this essay to study the period of history from 1861 to 1872 so far as it relates to the American Negro.

Rosalie sat sideways in her chair, shaking from the laughter she was swallowing. I imagined myself drawing a gun from desk, taking aim, and killing her without so much as a quiver.

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To hit the moon, you often have to aim for the sun.

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

There now," she said with some satisfaction and, taking careful aim, she shut her eyes and chopped hard. It worked—but Marty was totally unprepared for the next event. A wildly flopping chicken—with no head—covered her unmercifully with spattered blood. "Stop thet! Stop thet!" she screamed. "Yer s'pose to be dead, ya—ya dumb headless thing.

With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.

The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common civilization in their own way.

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

In my view, the key aim of economic policy in many countries, and particularly in Russia, should be the sort of policy that stimulates productivity growth because only on the basis of growth of labour productivity can we enjoy healthy growth.

You're after perfection,'Matt said. 'Is that so awful?' 'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.

He took his aim. His arm wavered. His eyes burned with sweat. Why didn't someone come and jump on his back and make him stop? He fired. A chair fell over in his mind.

There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.

It's amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that's definitely my aim.

That's what my aim won't miss. The part of my lady's heart I hold as my own.

Cupid, who never shoots with a surer aim than through the steam of boarding-house hash, sniped him where he sat.

Why, Hurst couldn't have hit the side of Westminster Abbey with a pistol, even by throwing the silly thing.

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.

I shot at a great bird which I saw sitting upon a tree on the side of a great wood.