Aim Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material…

— Sunday Adelaja

A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by the present…

— William Greider

In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

— Horace

“It is society as a whole that assigns value and prestige to what people do;”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Closing the dictionary and opening any history of civilizations, the curious reader might consider the characteristics of societies in decay. At the meeting point…

— John Ralston Saul

The attainment of of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

— Pierre Trudeau

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

— Victor Hugo

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

— Cornel West

Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt;…

— Plutarch