Aim Quotes

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. (Herbert Spencer)
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. View quote
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. View quote
Aristotle
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. View quote
Joseph Joubert
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. View quote
Leó Szilárd
Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. View quote
Bruce Lee
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. View quote
Robert Frost
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. (George Santayana)
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. View quote
Edith Sitwell
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. View quote
Frank Stella
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! View quote
Denis Diderot
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. View quote
Walt Disney
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. View quote
Anna Pavlova
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. View quote
John Updike
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. (Bruce Lee)
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. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. View quote
Henry Miller
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. View quote
Edward Hopper
Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor. View quote
Bill Shankly