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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz

Life, Happy, Purpose

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life, Sense, Less

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

Education, Good, College

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Making, Wind, Plans

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Victor Hugo

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

Great, Men, Philosophy

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

Religion, Politics, Fire

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Goal, Impossible

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
Elle Macpherson

Good, Women, Beautiful

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell

Human, Him, Joke

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

Peace, Woman, America

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge

Education, Knowledge, Values

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
B. R. Ambedkar

Mind, Human, Existence

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammad Iqbal

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
Emil Zatopek

Goal, Bitterness, Try

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke

End, Minds, Weak

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson

Wise, Him, Cannot

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

Yourself, Laugh, Doubt

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
James Allen

Yourself, Single, Purpose

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Thomas Aquinas

Keep, Forever, Ship

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike

Psychology, Measure, Attainable

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Ayrton Senna

Money, Business, Strange

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell

Failure, Crime, Low

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
Chuck D.

Love, Black, Through

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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Human, Single

Aim for the highest.
Andrew Carnegie

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Music, God, End

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch

Great, Deeds, Suffer

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Tom Stoppard

Change, Journalism, Weapon

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert

Victory, Progress, Argument

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