Aim Quotes

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The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on… — P.J. O'Rourke
Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim. — Ivor Cutler
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should… — Charles Ferguson
CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let… — Harvey Fierstein
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the… — Carlos P. Romulo
I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill,… — Poul Hartling
I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you… — George Mikes
You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man… — Bruce Lee
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.… — Bertrand Russell
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died.… — Malala Yousafzai
A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is… — Carl von Clausewitz
Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work,… — Francis Wayland Parker
The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it… — J. William Fulbright
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs… — J. William Fulbright
Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for… — Ralph Fiennes
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. — Samuel Johnson
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not… — Aristotle

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