Aim Quotes

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The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential… — B. H. Liddell Hart
In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is… — B. H. Liddell Hart
[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit. — J. Arthur Thomson
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and… — Mark Twain
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are… — Nhat Hanh
The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of… — Edwin Markham
...the aim of every hierarchy is always to imitate God so as to take on His form... the task of every hierarchy is to receive… — Maximus the Confessor
What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles. — Ruth Wilson
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity… — Leo Tolstoy
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at… — Friedrich Schiller
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing… — Mahatma Gandhi
Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. — Alan Kay
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near… — William Shakespeare
When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is… — Eric Hoffer
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure. — Eric Hoffer

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