1.
Proverb -
“Before shooting, one must aim.”
2.
Thomas J. Watson -
“It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it”
3.
Arnold Toynbee -
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
4.
Henry David Thoreau -
“In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.”
5.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
“Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.”
6.
Michelangelo Buonarroti -
“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”
7.
Michelangelo Buonarroti -
“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
8.
Vincent Lombardi -
“In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
9.
Ernest Holmes -
“Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.”
10.
J. Hawes -
“Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
11.
Emma Goldman -
“Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.”
12.
Viktor E. Frankl -
“Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America: Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run — in the long-run, I say! — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”
13.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
14.
Dr. W. Edwards Deming -
“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”
15.
Edmund Vance Cooke -
“Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.”
16.
Queen Christina -
“It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.”
17.
Daniel Hudson Burnham -
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood — and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”
18.
Robert Browning -
“Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, — As, God be thanked! I do not.”
19.
Robert Browning -
“What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me.”
20.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to.”
21.
PhineasTaylor Barnum -
“If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.”
22.
Lita Bane -
“Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing.”
23.
James Russell Lowell -
“Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime.”
® All rights reserved.