aim Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about aim.
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“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
“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.”
- Bertrand Russell
“I aim for a lifetime full of movies.”
- Salma Hayek
“Don't aim for success if you want it just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
- David Frost
“One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
- Brooks Adams
“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.”
- Adlai Stevenson
“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”
- Plutarch
“Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.”
- James F. Cooper
“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