Quotes About Aim

Perhaps a wish was just a hope with better aim.

Acceptance with God is the great thing we should desire and aim at in all our religious services, particularly in the Lord's supper, which is our eating of the sin-offering.

May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and do we know how much we add to ourselves when we awake something of the incomprehensible that slumbers in every corner? Here you have awakened love which will not fall asleep again. … nothing can ever separate two souls which, for an instant, 'have been good together.

Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.

Throughout his work, Dr. Maltz used two terms that some people find more beneficial than the word "goal." The word "goal" causes a negative reaction or feeling of tension in some people. But if they use the word "project" or "cause," they understand what they need to do.

An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!

The aim of theory is not to be boringly right but brilliantly wrong.

If originality and truth are your aim, cultivate your own back garden.

aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Any system that aims to destroy, rather than to construct the world can't be considered to be good before any person who has a sound mind.

The aim of planning is to minimise, remove and cast aside all the doubts.

The aim of science was not meant to turn against every religious belief, but to illuminate the minds of the people.

The greatest individual will aim to be both the perfectionist, the dreamer, the visionary, and all of the greatest attributes known to man. Neither avoiding nor despising any of them.

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

When a man learns the art of thinking from the end, that man is master of his fate. For he defines his end, he formulates an aim in life, and then feels himself right into the situation of that end.

The purpose of practicing detachment is to separate us from our present reactions to life and attach us to our aim in life.

The supreme test of Sonship is the forgiveness of sin. The test that your imagination is Christ Jesus, the Son of God, is your ability to forgive sin. Sin means missing one's mark in life, falling short of one's ideal, failing to achieve one's aim. Forgiveness means identification of man with his ideal or aim in life. This is the work of awakened imagination, the supreme work, for it tests man's ability to enter into and partake of the nature of his opposite.

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man's goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

Purpose is one that adopts a valued end result for human activity, over a person's lifetime or the lifetime of an organization.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences is the aim.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences if the aim.