Aims Quotes

370 Aims quotes by 295 unique authors

On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down… — Jack London
It is a good lesson - though it may often be a hard one - for a man... to step aside out of the narrow… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one… — Hermann Hesse
Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him… — Emile Durkheim
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A… — Napoleon Hill
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition.… — Susan Sontag
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and… — Oscar Wilde
Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but… — Mikhail Naimy
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among… — Thomas Hardy
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,… — Oscar Wilde
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to… — Charles Dickens
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes… — Ramana Maharshi
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims… — Aldous Huxley
Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined… — Charles Portis
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle… — George Orwell
I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in… — John le Carre
Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes. — Simone de Beauvoir
...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our… — Erich Fromm
I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to… — Neil Postman
You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect. — Jon Stewart
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how… — Napoleon Hill
Coffee?" Santangelo calls down to us. We both look up. He,Ben, and Raffy are hanging over the side. "Is it espresso?" Anson Choi asks behind… — Melina Marchetta
Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.… — Albert Einstein
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. — Elisabeth Elliot
When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life… — Julian Barnes

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