Best aim & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

Source: The magnetic lady: or, humours reconciled. A tale of a tub. The sad shepherd: or, a tale of Robin Hood. The case is altered. Entertainments, &c

“Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good”

Knows Men Ends Facts Action Law Pleasure Divine Fame Highest Concerned And Love Aim Finals Punishment God Love Knowing God Felicity Divine Law

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.”

Mind Ends Happiness Joy Perfect Virtue Exercise Activity Goodness Laughter Aim Finals Active Practicals Conformity

Author:Aristotle

“Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.”

Ends Government Courses Freedom Too Much Security Civilization Aim Offspring Guarded

Book:Last Three Speeches on Kansas Ad Freedom: Feb. 7th, March 6th, and May 19th & 20th, 1856

Source: Last Three Speeches on Kansas Ad Freedom: Feb. 7th, March 6th, and May 19th & 20th, 1856

“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”

Mind Humans Ends Poetry Literature Steps Poet Activity Achievement Aim Prose Human Mind Crowns Delicacy

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.”

Ifs Ends Sports Leadership Numbers Worry Theory Baseball Aim Strive Statistics Consistency Short Sighted

Author:Tom Seaver

“O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.”

Stills Ends Happiness Dies Names Pleasure Bears Gratitude Eternal Eternity Aim Dare Appreciation Ease Cheer Sigh Thankfulness Cheerfulness Prompts Joyfulness

Author:Alexander Pope

“Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.”

Should Mind May Mean Children Ends Done School Brain Growing Aim Train Sake Educational Things Done

Author:Francis Wayland Parker

“Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.”

Ends Acceptance Perfection Aim Imperfection

Author:Ivor Cutler

“If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.”

Ifs Life Should Trying Ends Philosophy Desire Literature Knowledge Influence Mark Aim Sake Determine Educational Good Will Outlines Archer Nicomachean Ethics Great Influence

Author:Aristotle

“Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.”

Men Ends Self Freedom Security Relation Aim Democratic Selfish Pursuit Selfishness Collaboration Petty End Of Life Democratic Society Candor

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end, any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only reality.”

Needs Mind Ideas Real Ends Moments Reality Past Left Goal Imagination Memories Teach Aim Sand Present Moment Celebration Our Memories Footprint Totality

Author:Rajneesh

“Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.”

Mean Ends Aim Perceive Reaching

Book:The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ

Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ

“The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated with the utmost liberality.”

Firsts War Ends Enemy Five Essentials Aim Treated Instance Variety Spy Liberality

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.”