Aim Quotes

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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. — Thomas Jefferson
I didn't aim at anything except good music. — Waylon Jennings
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. — Samuel Johnson
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. — Joseph Joubert
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. — Daniel Kahneman
I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere… — Taylor Lautner
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. — Bruce Lee
Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger. — David Letterman
The aims of life are the best defense against death. — Primo Levi
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. — George Henry Lewes
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. — C.S. Lewis
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. — James Russell Lowell
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. — James Russell Lowell
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live… — Elle Macpherson
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the… — Ramana Maharshi
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed… — Orison Swett Marden
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward… — Marshall McLuhan
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an… — H. L. Mencken

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