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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe,
then I'd have to say that the universe
aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin
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Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Always aim at complete harmony
of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts
and everything will be well.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
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.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
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 man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perfection is the obstacle of creation
and the enemy of achievement.
- Neale Donald Walsch
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
Life is not about perfection -
or a quest for perfection.
Life is about enjoying what we have -
for as long as we have it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure
the inner perfection of his own personality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace,
then progress in virtue is progress in each of these
for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us,
progress is always an approach toward it.
- Epictetus
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller
Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung
Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
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