Aim Quotes
1830 quotes by 1207 authors
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Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.
— Cecelia Ahern
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In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.
— Paulo Coelho
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Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy…
— Henry Miller
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You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.
— Jon Stewart
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Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of…
— Dean Young
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If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.…
— Henry Miller
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Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the…
— Tim Harford
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Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two.
— Anthony Horowitz
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There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look…
— Vera Nazarian
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Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but…
— Robert Wright
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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low…
— Michelangelo
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No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to…
— Atul Gawande
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The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which…
— Bertrand Russell
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No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone Halt had used.…
— John Flanagan
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