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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Earth, Heaven, Neither

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Love, Success, Naturally

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

Science, Greatest, Facts

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

Work, Best, Done

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Goal, Often, Simply

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Thought, Thoughts

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Politics, Keep, Whole

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Art, Appearance, Inward

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

Short, High, Lies

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

Give, Fail, Duty

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle

Wise, Pain, Pleasure

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Simply, Morality

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Best, Alone, Failure

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller

Life, Live, Means

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selfish, Fail, Sensual

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Good, Yourself

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hit, Above, Mark

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

Good, Art, Thought

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost

Life, Whatever, Accept

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Long, High

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Worth, Fortune

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone

May, Moon, Star

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney

Kids, Dead, Anyway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway

Best, Down, Put

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato

Knowledge, Evil, Virtuous

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield

Everything, Give, Laziness

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
Walt Disney

Change, Future, Keep

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Peter Drucker

Him, Understand, Service

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character, Everyone, Chief

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.
Phyllis Diller

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