Aims Quotes

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A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized… — Napoleon Hill
Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature. — Robert Bridges
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
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
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
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
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. — Immanuel Kant
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
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims. — Archibald Alexander Hodge
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
There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience… — Emma Goldman
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but in the hands… — Leo Baekeland
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth… — Guglielmo Marconi
The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his… — Pope Benedict XVI
In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that… — John Zachary Young
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny. — Aldous Huxley

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