Aims Quotes

370 Aims quotes by 295 unique authors

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can… — Bell Hooks
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind… — Ludwig von Mises
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than… — Freeman Tilden
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. — Benazir Bhutto
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and… — Henry Hazlitt
Paying isn’t wrong, and being paid isn’t wrong. Trampling other people’s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an… — Richard Stallman
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere. — Frank Arthur Swinnerton
What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can… — Aristotle
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy. — Erich Fromm
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel… — Albert Camus
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives,… — Alfred North Whitehead
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance… — Paul Meyer
True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the… — Maurice Saatchi
Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller… — Jack White
Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made… — Alexis Carrel
Prayer works in the mind as a healing force. It calms the patient, enlightens the physician, guides the surgeon, and it often victoriously applies the… — Wilferd Peterson
Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted… — Margaret Visser

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