Aim Quotes

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

I don't aim to offend.

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

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

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.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

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.

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.

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

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.

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

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

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

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.