#aim

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. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#aim #another #endure #everybody #fear

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#appreciating #appreciation #having #less #life

You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#any #ask #claim #decorator #everywhere

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#fame #ipad #oldest #user

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#forget #her #kinship #literature #philosophy

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aim #being #citizen #freedom #freeman

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#aimed #another #boldly #effecting #ends

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#below #business #business world #killers #notches

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#anyone #bore #certainly #claims #clear