Aim Quotes

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To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause… — Anna Pavlova
The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing… — Viktor Korchnoi
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek… — Carl Jung
Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human.… — Richard Branson
Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2… — Pope Benedict XVI
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind. — Victor Hugo
The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine… — Unknown Author
Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless… — Steve Pavlina
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by… — Karl Popper
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic… — Albert Einstein
I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from… — Wes Montgomery
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations,… — Hermann Weyl
If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and… — G I Gurdjieff
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for… — Diodorus Siculus
It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with… — Raphael Lemkin
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary — Francis Parker Yockey
We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such… — Alain Robert
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how… — Ann Beattie

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