Aims Quotes

370 Aims quotes by 295 unique authors

Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling… — Kobe Bryant
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to… — Eugene O'Neill
Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All… — Arno C. Gaebelein
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know… — Andrew Ryan
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full… — Mary Howitt
An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be… — James Anthony Froude
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to… — James F. Cooper
I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out. — Park Chan-wook
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our… — Moshe Dayan
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. — Eugene Delacroix
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to,… — Charles Dickens
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. — Albert Einstein
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to… — Ismail Haniyeh
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
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
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
I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people. — Marilyn Monroe
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. — Jim Morrison
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is… — Benito Mussolini
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were,… — George Orwell

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