Aim Quotes

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The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence. — Saul Bellow
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Excessive severity misses its own aim. — Publilius Syrus
Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation… — George Will
Whither should we aim if not towards God? — Andre Gide
Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily… — Benjamin Franklin
Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is… — Dalai Lama
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. — Oliver Goldsmith
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel… — Albert Camus
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it,… — Lucy Larcom
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He… — Oswald Chambers
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the… — Douglas Coupland
As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men… — Soren Kierkegaard
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and… — Elinor Lipman
One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep. — Mary MacLane

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