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Quote 3170
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 3128
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 3099
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.Showing Quotes on aims
Quote 3007
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterdayby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 2814
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myselfby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 2676
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who doShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 2592
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attainedShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 2298
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin againby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 2269
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would doby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 2260
As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desireby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 2158
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectableShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 2141
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may leadby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 2012
Small projects need much more help than great onesby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 2006
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledgeby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 2003
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.by: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1994
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successesShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1993
Our ideals are our better selvesShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1652
Life has a higher end, than to be amused.Showing Quotes on aims
Quote 1621
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.Showing Quotes on aims
Quote 1602
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happinessby: AristotleShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1495
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action stepsby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 1330
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain itby: William JamesShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1328
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the greatShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1254
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?Showing Quotes on aims
Quote 1210
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earthShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 1207
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's wayby: AristotleShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1185
A hen is only an egg's way of making another eggby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1151
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorableShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1110
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the endShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1076
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trailShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1044
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goalsShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1037
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too lowby: Thomas FullerShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 1002
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hoursShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 993
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long wayShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 989
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the worldShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 937
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do somethingShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 929
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.Showing Quotes on aims
Quote 923
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happinessShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 812
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great thingsby: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 743
Where love reigns the impossible may be obtained.Indian proverbShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 627
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 571
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplishby: MichelangeloShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 570
If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get donefrom GermanyShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 569
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go togetherfrom KenyaShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 559
Nothing will come of nothingShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 550
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimitedShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 489
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.Showing Quotes on aims
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Quote 466
The almighty Lord set two targets for me: the abolishment of slavery and the reformation of mannersShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 386
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Showing Quotes on aims
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Quote 382
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purposeShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 374
We can do no great things, only small things with great loveby: Mother TeresaShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 372
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength even if you striveby: HomerShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 367
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover themby: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 362
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.by: AristotleShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 291
Power is not alluring to pure mindsby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 230
Experience is not enough in itself - it has to be weighed, ordered and digested, and we have to draw the right conclusions from itShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 205
There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting itShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 97
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopherby: SocratesShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 79
Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossibleby: Franz von AssisiShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 72
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolenceby: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 68
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at handby: Thomas CarlyleShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 66
You can do things that I cannot do. I can do things that you cannot do. Together we can do great thingsby: Mother TeresaShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 65
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the waterShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 62
They can conquer who believe they canby: VergilShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 56
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great wayShowing Quotes on aims
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Quote 51
He that can have patience can have what he willShowing Quotes on aims
Quote 28
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Showing Quotes on aims
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believeby: Anatole FranceShowing Quotes on aims
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