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• Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Thoughtful, Winning

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.36, North Atlantic Books

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• In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Running, Dream

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.167, Penguin

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• Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

  Plutarch

  Uplifting, Adversity, Suffering

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goal, Management, Planning

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

  Tom Stoppard

  Inspirational, Believe, Writing

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.196, University of Michigan Press

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• My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  Walt Disney

  Kids, Disney Animation, Adults

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• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Animal

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.28, Bertrand Russell

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• Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Art, Strong, Clever

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1067, Delphi Classics

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  Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  Edmund Burke

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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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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• Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Art, Nice

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”

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• Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

  Aristotle

  Art, Choices, Inquiry

  Nicomachean Ethics, bk.1, ch.1,1093 (translated by Sir David Ross).

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• Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

  Phyllis Diller

  Feet, Aim High

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

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• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ambition, Sublime, Lines

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

  Thomas Szasz

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Age

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• If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Softball, Powerful

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• A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Wisdom, Boys, Suggestions

  "Aids to Scoutmastership: A Handbook for Scoutmasters on the Theory of Scout Training".

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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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• What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Bottles

  Philosophical Investigations pt. 1, sec. 309 (1953)

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• Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

  Annie Dillard

  Block, Past, Woods

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• The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

  George Orwell

  Humility, Fools Day, Aggravation

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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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• 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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