These aim quotes will inspire you. Aim point or direct (a weapon or camera) at a target or have the intention of achieving; or a purpose or intention; a desired outcome.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging aim quotes, aim sayings, and aim proverbs.
Famous Aim Quotes
- “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” ~ David Frost
- “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ~ Aristotle
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“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” ~ Anne Frank
- “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” ~ Henry Ford
- “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michelangelo
- “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
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“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” ~ John Dewey
- “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ~ Aristotle
- “God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.” ~ Alexandre Vinet
- “If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.” ~ Steve Pavlina , Aim quotes in life
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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “I’m not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter.” ~ Christopher Reeve
- “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “I believe there’s a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
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“Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights.” ~ Khalil Gibran - “Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.” ~ Dee Hock
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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ~ Larry Elder
- “Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We’re in it for the bigger goal – to move it along for the next generation.” ~ Landon Donovan
- “The goal is to win. It’s not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don’t want to throw my money away, but it’s really about having fun and that means success and trophies.” ~ Roman Abramovich
- “The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.” ~ Rick Hansen
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“When the promise is clear, the price gets easy” ~ Jim Rohn
- “The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.” ~ Verner Panton
- “When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. ‘Too bad that didn’t work.’ ‘I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you.’ We need to separate the deed from the doer.” ~ Rudolf Dreikurs
- “Life is not a dress rehearsal – wake up every day excited to live out your purpose.” ~ Andrew Wommack
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“It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.” ~ Robert Greene
- “Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.” ~ Esther Hicks
- “The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become.” ~ Alphonse Mucha
- “It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.” ~ Isocrates
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“You are a mirror of the Almighty…this is the reason you were created…your purpose.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.” ~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche
- “A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company’s business strategies and what’s expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.” ~ Robert S. Kaplan
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“No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.” ~ Grant Cardone
- “Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can’t get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.” ~ Bob Proctor
- “If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum – its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.” ~ Jack Parsons
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“By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.” ~ Bob Proctor
- “Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .” ~ Jim Rohn
- “As I make goals for this year… Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.” ~ Lysa TerKeurst
- “The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence, we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there.” ~ Dolores Cannon
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“My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.” ~ Olafur Eliasson
- “If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline” ~ Lee Kuan Yew
- “To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.” ~ Alvin Ailey
- “Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don’t want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don’t want to take over corporations and make them more ‘socially responsible.’ We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.” ~ Kevin Carson
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“Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.” ~ Jean Giono
- “We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are to start moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed.” ~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow , Aim quotes for success
- “The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.” ~ D. Elton Trueblood
- “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
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“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.” ~ Pearl S. Buck
- “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” ~ Henry Miller
- “Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.” ~ David Ogilvy
- “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” ~ William Faulkner
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“The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.” ~ William James Mayo
- “To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary” ~ Francis Parker Yockey
- “Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.” ~ Thomas Kuhn
- “I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.” ~ Anita Desai
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“In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn’t certain about what their real aim was – nor am I now.” ~ Roone Arledge
- “So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.” ~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- “Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.” ~ Bill Shankly
- “All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
- “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” ~ Will Rogers
Aim to direct a course specifically: to point a weapon at an object.
