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The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure. - Aristotle We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. - Aristotle To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target. - Ashleigh Brilliant I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. - Charlotte Bronte (used pseudonym Currer Bell) Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - John Dewey High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. - Tryon Edwards We aim above the mark to hit the mark. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach. - Francois de Salignac Fenelon It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. - Edgar Albert Guest Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. - Dag Hammarskjold To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing. - Janet Erskine Stuart Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher. - John Wanamaker We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. - Emile Zola
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