Aim Quotes

3,047 quotes from 2,039 authors

Aiming at something gives a life a pulse, a reason to stretch beyond the familiar. This massive anthology of over three thousand quotes gathers artists, scientists, and spiritual seekers, all pointing to the power of a clear target—whether a film, a belief, or inner transformation. For tighter focus, the Goal Setting and Motivation pages explore related ideas.

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The aim in football is always to win.

Reece James

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Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Benjamin E. Mays

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To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

Francesco Baracca

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Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

Bruce Lee

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There is no art without a poetic aim.

Edouard Vuillard

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All war aims for impunity.

Michael Ignatieff

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Aim for the highest.

Andrew Carnegie

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My aim is to create the perfect dress!

Victoria Beckham

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Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

Gary Snyder

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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Carl von Clausewitz

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My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.

Jamie Oliver

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I want to be as real as possible. I aim to be that.

Richa Chadha

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

Thomas Jefferson

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We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

Paul Biya

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My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

Letitia Wright

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Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

Henry J. Kaiser

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When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that…

Sun Tzu

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Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

Horace

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One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

Quintilian

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“The biggest thing I have thrown at my ex during an argument was a kitchen spoon. I missed and broke an ornament.…

Steven Magee

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What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

George Eliot

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Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims…

David Packard

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There is more competition to achieve a job, but very less competition to achieve the glory

Amit Kalantri

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Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race,…

Carlos P. Romulo

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The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and…

Pope Benedict XVI

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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will…

Damon Hill

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You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though...…

Aceyalone

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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages…

Bill Watterson

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Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal...…

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on…

Mos Def

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Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which…

David Frost

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If the world gets a lot hotter in a hurry and the primary aim is to cool it down, then the current…

Stephen J. Dubner

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The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It…

Clara Barton

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Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and…

Jose Saramago

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When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east…

John Updike

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The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is…

Indra Sinha

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Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within…

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the…

Karl Pearson