Aim Quotes

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Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. — John Dewey
Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature. — Robert Bridges
The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim… — W. Somerset Maugham
Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery… — Maria Montessori
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. — John Stuart Mill
A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the… — Albert Einstein
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other… — Oscar Wilde
It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a… — Felix Frankfurter
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. — Sigmund Freud
Joy is the zest that you get out of using your talents, your understanding, the totality of your being, for great aims...That's the kind of… — Rollo May
Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself. — Ken Robinson
We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It… — Bill Frist
The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a… — Jacques Monod
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. — Napoleon Hill
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. — Immanuel Kant
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. — Napoleon Hill

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