When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely…

The attainment of enlightenment makes you happy forever. It frees you from the mental and emotional pains that human beings experience every day. You…

— Frederick Lenz

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Many people are very intelligent in accomplishing worldly attainments. This intelligence is not wisdom because worldly attainments such as a high position, reputation, wealth…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

— Brian Tracy

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

— James F. Cooper

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

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

— Ann Radcliffe

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