Aiming Proverbs

Sayings about Aiming

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming. ~ English Proverb

Aim high in your career but stay humble in your heart. ~ Korean Proverb

Aiming isn't hitting. ~ Swahili Proverb

Too aim is not enough, you must hit! ~ German Proverb

Before firing, you must take aim. ~ Nigerian Proverb

Frivolous talk is like shooting without aiming. ~ Spanish Proverb

Taking aim for too long can ruin your eyes. ~ Ivorian Proverb

Quotations about Aiming

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. ~ Bruce Lee

Aim for the highest. ~ Andrew Carnegie

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

I think you should aim for the stars – and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds! ~ Roxanne McKee

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ~ C. S. Lewis

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. ~ Paul Arden

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. ~ William Ralph Inge

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. ~ Joel Hawes

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ~ Aristotle

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine. ~ David Ogilvy

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it’s tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens. ~ Henry Cavill

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ~ E. O. Wilson

Aim higher. Stay focused. ~ Brandon Adams

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. ~ Thomas Aquinas

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling. ~ Douglas William Jerrold

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. ~ William James

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles. ~ Ayrton Senna

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ~ Muhammad Iqbal

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. ~ Charles de Gaulle

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime. ~ James Russell Lowell

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off. ~ Phyllis Diller

Life, Money, People Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off. ~ Phyllis Diller

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor. ~ Bill Shankly

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. ~ Carl von Clausewitz

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. ~ Daniel Burnham

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. ~ Herbert Spencer

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. ~ W. Clement Stone

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. ~ Walt Disney

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big. ~ Deng Xiaoping

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ~ Philip Stanhope

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~ Henry Miller

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~ Zig Ziglar

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 ... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. ~ Viktor Frankl

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. ~ Dr. David M. Burns

Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~ David Frost

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~ David Frost

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. ~ Plutarch

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

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best. ~ Henry J. Kaiser

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