Aim Quotes

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If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. — Thomas Aquinas
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat
The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,… — Laozi
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state… — Sulak Sivaraksa
Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in… — Thomas Jefferson
All I ever aim to do is to put the Development hypothesis in the same coach as the creation one. It will only be a… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. — Jon Katzenbach
Our ultimate aim in this welfare work is to help Church members to become self-supporting, and to obtain work they can do best. The Church,… — Henry D. Moyle
Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be… — Damon Hill
Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th… — Damon Hill
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. — Anna Pavlova
As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim. — Fred Couples
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim. — William Shenstone
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. — Ludwig von Mises
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and… — James F. Cooper
Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would… — Watchman Nee

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