Top 627 Aims Quotes & Sayings

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Envy aims very high.

I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint.

Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Savage people realize their aims through fighting, through conflict. Cultivated and intellectual souls believe that they will attain their aims through thought and discussion.

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

One of my aims is to be the fastest and regarded as the best fast bowler in the world.

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

I've always had very high aims for my life and for my career, for anything that I do.

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

The highfalutin aims of democracy, whether real or imaginary, are always assumed to be identical with its achievements. This, of course, is sheer hallucination. Not one of those aims, not even the aim of giving every adult a vote, has been realized. It has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.

For any exam in history, here is the answer: all human history is the struggle between systems that attempt to shackle the human personality in the name of some intangible good on the one hand and systems that enable and expand the scope of human personality in the pursuit of extremely tangible aims. The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

Architecture aims at Eternity

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

I want to lead a nation where anyone who aims high can achieve their dreams.

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.

A reporter shoots first, aims later.

A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole. He arranges his levels consciously or subconsciously, adhearing to the requisites of the problem he is asked to solve or to his own inclination. Some designers see total act through a disc of aesthetic considerations-others, more practical minded, may put economic considerations at top level.

I am at Chelsea and I still have aims here, what is said elsewhere is not important.

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

All war aims for impunity.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.