Aim Quotes
1830 quotes by 1255 authors
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To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best…
— Gilbert Highet
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I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally…
— Lord Chesterfield
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It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.
— John G. Bennett
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Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
— Eric Hoffer
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We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
— Nelson Goodman
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A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to…
— Paul Rotha
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We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan.
— Shinzo Abe
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The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough - too much…
— Thomas D
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The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.
— Manning Marable
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Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim…
— Elinor Ostrom
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Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
— Morris Raphael Cohen
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The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
— Peter Drucker
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One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.
— Christian Tissier
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The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win…
— Oswald Chambers
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Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of…
— Jacques Monod
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Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
— Yasuhiro Konishi
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A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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We are not saints yet, but we, too, should beware. Uprightness and virtue do have their rewards, in self-respect and in respect from others, and…
— Philip Neri
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The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
— H. L. Mencken
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