Aim Quotes

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It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work… — Albert Einstein
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of… — Logan Pearsall Smith
If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as… — Aristotle
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. — Laozi
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims… — Leo Tolstoy
The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. — John Dewey
Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security,… — Charles Sumner
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a… — Albert Einstein
It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there… — Bertrand Russell
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same… — H. L. Mencken
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid… — C.S. Lewis
There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim. — Napoleon Hill
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and… — Robert Baden-Powell
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be… — Charlotte Mason
The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of… — Denis Diderot
The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become… — Hassan II of Morocco
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement… — W. Somerset Maugham

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