Aim Quotes - Page 28

• To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Games, Fighter

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• If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Spiritual, Protect, Knows

  Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. (2008). “Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing: Easy Read Comfort Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Fighting, Winning, Finals

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• Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.

  Hannah More

  God, Heart, Humble

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.676

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• All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Reliance, Theory, Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.2

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• Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing, and, where possible, fuel also, for at least a year ahead...Let every head of household aim to own his own home, free from mortgage. Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues-honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Religious, Honesty, Home

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• The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Real, Order, Goal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.94, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.

  Efim Geller

  Sacrifice, Player, Chess

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• You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

  Francine Prose

  Want, Self Knowledge, Ifs

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• We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Needs, Fuel, Fossils

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• The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

  John Dewey

  Education, Growth, Literacy

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• THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

  Marianne Vos

  Monday, Morning, Motivation

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• I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

  Matt de la Pena

  Life, Passion, Bottles

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• A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

  Italo Calvino

  Feelings, Intuition, Ephemeral

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

  Bill Richardson

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

  Pablo Picasso

  Discovering, Wanted, Cubism

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• The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Giving, Delight

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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• Aim for service and success will follow!

  Albert Schweitzer

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• Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Imagination, Force

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• So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

  Seth Godin

  Catchy, Bother, Slogans

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• The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

  James Altucher

  Wise, Men, Decrease

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• Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.

  Annie Oakley

  Mark

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• Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.

  Robertson Davies

  Mean, Acceptance, Skills

  Robertson Davies, Surridge, Jennifer (1997). “Happy Alchemy: Writings on the Theatre and Other Lively Arts”, M&S

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• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Country, Ambition

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