Aim Quotes

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The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both… — Evelyn Underhill
They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny,… — Orison Swett Marden
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless… — Richard Mitchell
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance.... But no matter how tough the opposition… — Madeleine Albright
I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of… — Rajneesh
You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination. — W. Clement Stone
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little… — Oliver Goldsmith
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims. — Archibald Alexander Hodge
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom… — Russell Kirk
Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Individuality is the aim of political liberty — James F. Cooper
The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in… — Sri Aurobindo
The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most… — James Madison
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… — Seneca the Younger
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek

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