To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. — Alexandre Vinet Copy Share Image
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then… — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
With Swansea the aim is to get promoted and I'm going to try everything I can to help the team get there. — Rhian Brewster Copy Share Image
The world of fashion and fine arts in New York really took me by surprise, and photography has helped me through a… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our aim - our only aim - is to be at home in Christ. He's not a roadside park or hotel room.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
Personality must be educated, and personality cannot be educated by confining its operations to technical and specialized things, or to the less… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Doesn't matter how good your bullets are if you don't aim carefully.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image