Aim Quotes - Page 6

• Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wall, World, Barbarians

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• High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

  Tryon Edwards

  Inspirational, Character, Mind

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.67, Ravenio Books

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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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• The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

  Frederick William Robertson (1866). “Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics”, p.148

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• Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

  Marguerite Duras

  Heterosexuality Is, Perfect, Desire

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press

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• My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

  James Broughton

  Writing, Issues, Flags

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• Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.

  Margaret Caroline Anderson

  Life, Real, Moving

  "The Fiery Fountains" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1951.

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• Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Strong, Philosophy, Hygiene

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• As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Pyramids, Tower Of Babel

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• If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

  John Kricfalusi

  Kids, Family Guy, Today

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• One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

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• As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Archer, Men, Hands

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• The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

  Eliza Farnham

  Truth, Effort, Mind

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.9

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• What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Vision, Genius

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

  Art Linkletter

  Family, God, Good Life

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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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• It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. [] It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: he made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Ambition, Effort

  William Faulkner, Joseph Leo Blotner (1978). “Selected letters of William Faulkner”, Vintage

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• Whither should we aim if not towards God?

  Andre Gide

  Should, Ifs

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• We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

  August Bebel

  Atheism, Today, Socialism

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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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• Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Stars, Government, Sky

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• By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Mark Victor Hansen (1989). “Future diary”

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• The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ego Problem

  Masudul Hasan, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1978). “Stories and Biographies from Iqbal”

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• Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

  Henry J. Kaiser

  Keys, Achieve

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