Aim Quotes

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He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then… — Jean de la Bruyere
If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you… — C.S. Lewis
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be… — James Anthony Froude
My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only… — Julie Klausner
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power… — Karl Marx
Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the… — Alfred North Whitehead
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison
For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one Rembrandt. Purposely, I… — Ricky Gervais
My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim. — Lana Del Rey
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. — David Frost
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always… — Robert Frost
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life… — Margaret Fuller
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. — Mahatma Gandhi
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. — Charles de Gaulle
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. — Colin Greenwood
I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things… — Phil Collins
I don't aim to offend. — Billy Connolly
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. — Mason Cooley

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