Aim Quotes - page 2

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. (Robert Browning)
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. View quote
Tom Stoppard
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. View quote
George Orwell
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. View quote
James Russell Lowell
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. (Michelangelo)
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. View quote
Peter Drucker
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
There are problems and there are children. It is our aim to separate the two. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry. View quote
Francis Crick
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. View quote
William James
In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Edmund Burke
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. (W. H. Auden)
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. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. View quote
W. Clement Stone
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry