Top Aims Quotes
Envy aims very high.
Ovid
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
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
Jeffrey Sachs
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
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
Wilhelm Dilthey 
Eugene Delacroix 
Cecil B. DeMille 
Bjarne Stroustrup 
Jim Morrison 
William Gilmore Simms All Aims Quotes
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Tryon Edwards
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It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Paul Wellstone
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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein
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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms
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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
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Popular Aims Authors
Albert EinsteinSamuel Butler OvidGeorge OrwellDwight D. EisenhowerCharles DickensMarshall McLuhanLeo TolstoyPaul WellstoneGeorge Henry LewesMortimer AdlerJim MorrisonMoshe DayanElizabeth Barrett BrowningBob Graham
Estelle MorrisJeffrey SachsTryon EdwardsBenito MussoliniFritz SauckelLudwig von MisesKarl Von ClausewitzEdward ThorndikeJames F. CooperWilhelm DiltheyJohann MostFerdinand de SaussureVladimir PutinWalter UlbrichtBjarne Stroustrup
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