Aims Quotes

“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
― Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We can train our minds by selecting the information that makes us calm, removes our doubts and helps us focus more intensely on our aims.”
― Prem Jagyasi

“Some people aim at nothing in life and hit it with amazing accuracy.”
― Aman Jassal, Rainbow - the shades of love

“Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.”
― Amit Kalantri

“They say it's impossible.
I refuse to believe it.
The journey may be difficult and the desired end unlikely. My patience and commitment may be tested by something that won't happen overnight. It may be that I veer off the path or quit before reaching my goal, but that doesn't mean it is impossible.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Keep going. No matter what you do, no matter how many times you screw up and think to yourself "there's no point to carry on", no matter how many people tell you that you can't do it - keep going. Don't quit. Don't quit because a month from now you will be that much closer to your goal than you are now. Yesterday you said tomorrow. Make today count.”
― Anonymous

“There is only One Man Playing your Game, You!”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Most people will passively do exactly what they did last year.Whatever you do, don’t let that person be you.”
― Richie Norton

“The fashion now is to think of universities as industries or businesses. University presidents, evidently thinking of themselves as CEO's, talk of "business plans" and "return on investment," as if the industrial economy could provide an aim and a critical standard appropriate either to education or to research.

But this is not possible. No economy, industrial or otherwise, can supply an appropriate aim or standard. Any economy must be either true or false to the world and to our life in it. If it is to be true, then it must be made true, according to a standard that is not economic.

To regard the economy as an end or as the measure of success is merely to reduce students, teachers, researchers, and all they know or learn to merchandise. It reduces knowledge to "property" and education to training for the "job market."

If, on the contrary, [Sir Albert] Howard was right in his belief that health is the "one great subject," then a unifying aim and a common critical standard are clearly implied. Health is at once quantitative and qualitative; it requires both sufficiency and goodness. It is comprehensive (it is synonymous with "wholeness"), for it must leave nothing out. And it is uncompromisingly local and particular; it has to do with the sustenance of particular places, creatures, human bodies, and human minds.

If a university began to assume responsibility for the health of its place and its local constituents, then all of its departments would have a common aim, and they would have to judge their place and themselves and one another by a common standard. They would need one another's knowledge. They would have to communicate with one another; the diversity of specialists would have to speak to one another in a common language. And here again Howard is exemplary, for he wrote, and presumably spoke, a plain, vigorous, forthright English-- no jargon, no condescension, no ostentation, no fooling around.”
― Wendell Berry

“Make today a gift to your future self.”
― Anonymous

“Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most... At other times, you're just lucky.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“This ideal conception―that one should have an aim in life―had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem; but I was still far from deciding what form my endeavours should ultimately take.”
― Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

“Why is art beautiful? Because it’s useless. Why is life ugly? Because it’s all aims, objectives and intentions.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“To talk of the size of a thought is odd, perhaps, but to say that someone is thinking big thoughts is not without meaning. "I want you all to come to my birthday party" is a bigger thought than "I want only some of you to come." Bodhicitta is theoretically the biggest thought anyone can think because of the number of beings involved, what it wants them to have, and the length of time it must last before its motivating power dies out. Since the duration of a thought is a variable of the aim, in the sense that the actions motivated by a thought cease when the aim is attained, one can conceive of thoughts that last longer and longer. Bodhicitta necessarily lasts until the last living being reaches the state free of suffering, because it is only then that the aim is finally achieved. This explains the prayer of Samantabhadra at the end of the Gandavyūha section of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, which the Dalai Lama often invokes: "For as long as space endures may I remain to work for the benefit of living beings.”
― Gareth Sparham, Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta

“When you decide - follow it up with action as spontaneously as possible if not sooner because the quicker you reciprocate with the decision the sooner you shall see results.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“To a versifier, sounds are the means and the aim; a poet travels toward the aim using sounds.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms

“You need to aim beyond what you are capable of.”
― Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

“The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“You have to know your goal to reach out for it.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Если мы хотим, чтобы ребенок развивался и рос как личность, нам нельзя допускать, чтобы он ориентировался только на наши требования. Напротив, мы должны помочь ребенку следовать его собственным внутренним целям и желаниям. Обычно детям бывает легче осознавать свои личные цели, когда они выражают их в творчестве: когда они пишут, сочиняют музыку, играют на музыкальных инструментах, рисуют или ставят детские пьесы.”
― Klaus W. Vopel, Как научить детей сотрудничать? Психологическ��е игры и упражнения: Практическое пособие. Часть 1

“فأهدافنا خيوطٌ ندخلها واحدةً تلو الأخرى في ثقب الإبرة الضيق لقليل الصّبر، الواسع لطويل البال.. ندخلها مرّةً واثنتين وثلاثاً، حتّى إذا يئسنا وقارب الصبر النفاذ، دخلت.. فمِنّا من يتسرّع ويخرجها من الثّقب متوهماً دخولها.. ومنّا من يدرك بحنكته ضرورة التأنّي للوصول إلى المبتغى.”
― حنان فرحات - Hanan Farhat, فاقد الهوية

“A person with victim mentality cannot find himself, his life mission, and go towards his aims”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Life comes with no aim; intellect begets it”
― Aniket S Sharma

“Going into a game of tennis: If you go in determined to win, and then your opponent is playing better than you, you're probably going to get anxious and feel that you're failing.

Whereas if you go in determined to play as well as you can, then it doesn't matter if your opponent is a bit better than you or if they start to win: you're not failing.”
― Derren Brown

“The true diferences between people, societies and political systems are not in aims, but in methods. Therefore, do not ask much about the aims, for proclaimed aims will always be noble and good-ask about the methods or observe the methods. That never deceives.”
― Alija Izetbegović, Political Musings

“Misses exist to hit the target.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov