Aim Quotes - Page 16

• The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Glorifying God, Glory

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• My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

  Khalil Gibran

  Religious, Art, Flower

  Khalil Gibran, “God”

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• A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to implement it as mercifully as possible. Are we to believe then that a holy God-our heavenly Father-is less just than the courts of men?

  Sidney Hatch

  Children, Father, Believe

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• As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Courage, Buddhist

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• When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Dwelling

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• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

  Plato

  Plato, Knowledge, Math

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• Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

  Plato

  Plato, Evil, Our Words

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

  Plato

  Plato, Justice, Lasts

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Suffering, Disease

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• It is not enough to just ride this earth. You have to aim higher, try to take off, even fly. It is our duty.

  Jose Yacopi

  Trying, Earth, Aviation

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• Nirvana is this moment seen directly. There is no where else than here. The only gate is now. The only doorway is your own body and mind. There’s nowhere to go. There’s nothing else to be. There’s no destination. It’s not something to aim for in the afterlife. It’s simply the quality of this moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Afterlife, Mind, Quality

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• The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Teaching, Reality

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.

  Richard Heinberg

  Frustration, Satisfaction In Life, Goal

  Richard Heinberg (2011). “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality”, p.259, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• I don't see the world as you see it.
  I see it as a game, and my aim is to complete it.
  What you live for is what you die for:
  To make a little name, grab some fame and the high score.

  MURS

  Rap, Games, Names

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• Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains, Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims, The will is much stronger than the flesh, And it only gets stronger when you going through duress, Imagination is the factory that makes legends... Close Your Eyes and dream B.I.G. like Faith Evans.

  Jay Electronica

  Dream, Coffee, Rap

  "Close Your Eyes". Song by Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu and The Bullitts, April 2011.

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• This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Views, Living Right, Effort

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• Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

  Frederick Scott Oliver

  Mean, Men, Political

  Frederick Scott Oliver (1934). “Politics and politicians”

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• Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden.... As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or face the consequences - and again in any action the aim will be to eliminate their military hardware, cut off their finances, disrupt their supplies, target their troops, not civilians.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Taken, Cutting

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• Our aim is a democratic peace.

  George W. Bush

  Historical, Democratic

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Political, Common

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• And now 'tis man who dares assault the sky ... And as we come to claim our promised place, Aim only to replay the good you gave, And warm with human love the chill of space.

  Thomas Goddard Bergin

  Men, Sky, Space

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• Peace, ... is crucial, because my government aims to hasten Mindanao's development by transforming it into the country's food basket.

  Joseph Estrada

  Country, Government, Development

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• What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We have so many priests who have gone half way … it’s sad that they did not manage to go the whole way; they have something of the employee in them, something of the bureaucrat in them and this is not good for the Church. Please be careful you don’t fall into this! You are becoming pastors in the image of Jesus, the good pastor. Your aim is to resemble him and act on behalf of him amidst his flock, letting his sheep graze.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Fall, Sheep

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• The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a goal can be attained perpetually frustrates human beings, who are disappointed at never getting there, never being able to stop.

  Stephen Spender

  Ideas, Goal, Able

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