"Pride is still aiming at the best houses:……" — Alexander Pope

More Aiming Quotes

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• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or… — Aristotle
• We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you… — Mary Kay Ash
• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of… — Gary Bauer
• I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for. — Jeff Bridges
• I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming… — David Byrne
• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at… — Sri Aurobindo
• A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the… — Libby Trickett
• Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by… — Fred Couples
• Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. — Charlotte Gray
• The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside… — Hugo Black
• He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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