Aim Quotes
1830 quotes by 1255 authors
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What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive;…
— Salman Rushdie
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Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
— Epicurus
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better…
— W. Edwards Deming
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The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.
— James Madison
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The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
— George Orwell
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My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees,…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject. I have been told that my…
— Yousuf Karsh
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Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how…
— Richard Henry Lee
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More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.
— Margaret Sanger
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The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
— Margaret Sanger
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The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.
— George W. S. Trow
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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use…
— Chinua Achebe
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Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self…
— Erich Fromm
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When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though…
— Mark Van Doren
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The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an…
— Karl Marx
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The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
— Horace
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My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can…
— Roger Federer
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From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I…
— Marat Safin
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Right now my main aim is not to get injured any more. I am a little bit afraid of running and sliding because the ankle…
— Marat Safin
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