Quotes about Aim

Everything has to do with rockets. Launching a rocket is similar to any endeavor in life. You formulate your best plans prior to, but you must be aware that, at any moment, the unexpected may come along. Events can deviate from plan. If you wait until you can foresee everything, you'll never launch. The best you can do is to aim high and plan for contingencies.

We must continually ask ourselves: Is our first aim to change our government or to see lives in and out of government changed for Christ?

As C. S. Lewis put it, "Aim at heaven and you will get the earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Faith is to prayer what the feather is to the arrow: without it prayer will not hit the mark.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there is no vision the people perisheth. But it is precisely because an ideal is necessary to man that the man without ideals is in permanent danger of fanaticism.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Said the divine Gautama, the Buddha, He who gives himself up to vanity, and does not give himself up to meditation, forgetting the real aim of life and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation, and he instructed his disciples in the following Five Great Meditations:--

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

If you wish to be a saint, it is not hard. Have one aim--to please Jesus and to unite yourself more intimately to Him.

Using flawed segmentation schemes, they often introduce products that customers don't want, because they aim at a target that is irrelevant to what customers are trying to get done.