aim Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about aim.
“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”
- E. O. Wilson
“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.”
- Alfred North Whitehead
“Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.”
- Zooey Deschanel
“As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.”
- Adam Sedgwick
“Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
- Daniel Burnham
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
- Aristotle
“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”
- Aristotle
“Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.”
- Jean Anouilh
“My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.”
- Natasha Henstridge
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
- Lao Tzu