Aim Of Life Quotes

• The aims of life are the best defense against death.

  Primo Levi

  Death, Defense, Aim

  Primo Levi (2017). “The Drowned and the Saved”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker, Dies at 86" by William Yardley, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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  Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Missing You, Stars

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• An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Goal

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)”, p.281, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive

  Maya Angelou

  Passion, Will To Survive, Life Is

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Motivational, Goal, Life Is

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Godly, Christian Inspirational

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  My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Aug 19, 2015

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• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Tragedy, Born

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Believe, Purpose, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Sep 30, 2015

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• The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

  Jack London

  Meat, Aim, Fangs

  Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.76, Jack London

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Fall, Acceptance

  Vogue, March 14, 1963.

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