Quotes about Aim
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
- Aristotle
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
- Margaret Fuller
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
- Aristotle
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth
- Oscar Wilde
The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathen; he is useful and he does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.
- Oswald Chambers
I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as if I were aiming at a target.
- 1 Samuel 20:20
However, a certain man drew his bow without taking special aim, and he struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. So the king said to his charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”
- 1 Kings 22:34
However, a certain man drew his bow without taking special aim, and he struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor. So the king said to his charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am badly wounded!”
- 2 Chronicles 18:33
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Psalm 64:3
He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
- Lamentations 3:12
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.
- Virginia Woolf