...we must never lose sight of that gaze with which we look at things.

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.

Let all your effort be directed towards a particular aim and keep a particular aim in sight.

The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.

Your purpose...should always be to know...the whole that was intended to be known.

Behind every successful venture and every inspiring career you will find an unflinching aim that was set early in life. Having an aim in life gives purpose to every action and orientation to every result.

We must never forget that we are bound toward perfection and should aim ceaselessly at it.

Radical goals must be kept in sight at all times.

To succeed, always remember that the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion.

The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one’s own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.

You must always know what it is that you want.

One should have living faith in higher things. One should have an aim. This is very important. The moment one loses faith and forgets the aim, one succumbs to anger, jealousy, greed, passion or delusion

In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent: so you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.