Aim Quotes

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

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

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

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

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

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

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.

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

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

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

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.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

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.

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

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

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

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

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

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

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.