Aims Quotes

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

Problem, Confusion, Means

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

Life, Enjoy, Learned

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison

Poetry, Achieve, Ways

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.
Marilyn Monroe

Consider, Admire

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens

Life, Great, Heart

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Political, Fire

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

Great, Enemy, Long

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Humanity, Lives, Himself

Envy aims very high.
Ovid

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan

Human, Goal, Among

You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
Charlize Theron

Mom, Mother, Single

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini

State, Fascism, Essence

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Life, Education, Spiritual

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
James F. Cooper

Good, Government, Political

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Great, Ignorance, May

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Strength, Leader, Ambition

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.
Christopher Walken

Funny, True, Sometimes

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Mortimer Adler

Union, Creation, Image

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Moshe Dayan

Purpose, Soldiers, Bring

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
Shimon Peres

Peace, Others, Economy

Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Paul Wellstone

Political, Perfect, Create

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix

Nothing, Everything, Artist

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Tryon Edwards

Great, Minds, High

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes

Become, Books, Inspiring

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
Vladimir Putin

Life, Country, Living

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
Cecil B. DeMille

Success, Person, Goal

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
Edward Thorndike

Education, Men, Human

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun

Work, Society, Knowledge

All war aims for impunity.
Michael Ignatieff

As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.
Fritz Sauckel

Political, Number, Trade

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