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• The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Government, People

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• Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

  John W. Davis

  Ambition, Politics, Initiative

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• I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Dry Up, Comfort, Population

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont (1968). “Tocqueville and Beaumont on social reform”

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• Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Differences, Moments

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Aug 19, 2014

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• Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Community, Action, Social

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• The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

  Horace

  Memories, Lessons, May

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

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• The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

  Frank Arthur Swinnerton

  Failure, Men, Doe

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• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
  Aim above morality.
  Be not simply good;
  be good for something.
  All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”

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• A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Leadership, Men, Ideas

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• In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Science, Design, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2012). “The Philosophy of History”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fruit, Method, Reasoning

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. IX), 1936.

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• Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Hate, Anger

  Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

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• I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fighting, Men, Happy Marriage

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Confusing, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1045, Wordsworth Editions

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• My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Each Day, Adore

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• The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Calm, Chaos

  "A Fitness Tip to Overcome Conflict" by Mike MacConnell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 12, 2016.

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• When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5. It ain't to play games with you, it's to aim at you, probably maim you. If I owe you I'm blowin' you to smithereens.

  Jay-Z

  Games, Play, Jordan

  "Song: "Numb" (Album: "The Black Album")". 2003.

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• Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

  J. R. D. Tata

  Perfection, Excellence, Achieve

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• The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

  Erich Fromm

  Businessman, Concrete, Persons

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Distance, Character

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, Growth, Spirit

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.152, Odyssey Editions

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• Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Awareness

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Process, Vigorous, Organisms

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Motivational, Goal, Aim Of Life

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• Excessive severity misses its own aim.

  Publilius Syrus

  Missing, Severity

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