Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

If you are without bread, how much wisdom can you boast and of what real utility are your talents, if you cannot procure for…

— Anonymous

“The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.”

— Josef Pieper

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled,…

— David Hume

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

— David Hume

It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

— Thomas Carlyle

Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable…

— Pat McCrory

Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man…

— Tony Robbins

Not merely by rules of conduct and religious observances, nor by much learning either, nor even by attainment of concentration, nor by sleeping alone,…

— Anonymous

The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is…

— Ramana Maharshi

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

In transmitting the dharma, there is neither explanation nor teaching; there is neighter hearing nor attainment. Since explanations never really explains, nor are they…

— John Daido Loori

“All achievements, whether in the business, intellectual, or spiritual world, are the result of definitely directed thought, are governed by the same law and…

— James Allen

The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin