Aim Quotes

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Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But… — Annie Oakley
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version… — Unknown Author
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as… — John Fowles
Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life:… — Seraphim of Sarov
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are — Niels Bohr
You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can… — P D Ouspensky
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being — Igor Stravinsky
"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said… — Maximilian Kolbe
The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which… — Pope John Paul II
My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," he said, for this is the "the most important activity. — Maximilian Kolbe
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our… — Marquis de Sade
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The… — Simone Weil
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be… — Thomas Szasz
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as… — J F C Fuller
Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation. — Swami Vivekananda
Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the… — Robert Bly
The ordinary patient goes to his doctor because he is in pain or some other discomfort and wants to be comfortable again; he is not… — Wilfred Trotter
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers… — Russell Means
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists… — James Clerk Maxwell

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