Aim Quotes - Page 5

• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Victory, Intelligence

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Law, Nervous

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• Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

  Johan Huizinga

  Order, Aquariums, Heaven

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• The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

  Edith Sitwell

  Encouragement, Opinion, Flattery

  "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Years, Ideas, Four

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• The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Two, World

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• But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Illustration, Space

  Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George G. Stewart, Robert W. Hamblin, William Faulkner (2009). “Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

  David Letterman

  Motivational, Reality, Focus

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Giving, Perfection, Laziness

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.185

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• The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Live Life, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

  Plato

  Plato, Knowledge, Evil

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• Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

  Bill Shankly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

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• Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Esquire, Nov. 1962

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• Direction, not intention determines your destination.

  Andy Stanley

  Inspirational, Attitude, Goal

  Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012

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• Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

  James Allen

  Commitment, Purpose, Literature

  James Allen (2016). “The James Allen Companion”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Passion, Order

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

  Hans Hofmann

  Light, Energy, Painting

  "The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Artists". Book by Katharine Kuh, p. 128, 1962.

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• The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Real, Different

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• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Leadership, Don't Give Up

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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Ambition

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• I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Writing, Projects, Reverie

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• Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Goal, Effort

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

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